* Tzemach David – Chassidut according to the weekly Torah portions by the Admo”r Rabbi David Hager of Zablutov. Kolomyya, 1893. First edition.
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of the author, Rabbi David Hager .
The sefer was published by the author’s grandson, Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heschel, av beit din of Zablutov. With an enthusiastic approbation by Rabbi Baruch of Vizhnitz, author of Imrei Baruch.
Uncommon sefer . To the best of our knowledge, this sefer has never been offered at auction.
19, [1] leaf, 22 cm. Very fine condition. Printed on acidic paper. Bound with Sefer Nachalat Ya’akov , aggadic novellae by Rabbi Ya’akov of Lissa, Lemberg, 1902. With approbations from Admo”rim of Ruzhin, Vizhnitz and Belz. With Sefer Chassidim . Warsaw, 1902.
* Avodat HaGershuni – Chassidism on the weekly Torah portions by Rabbi Gershon Ashkenazi of Kolomyya, son-in-law of the Admo”r, the Ahavat Shalom of Kossov. Zolkiew, 1863. Two parts. First edition.
On the title page: “Absolutely wonderful work, with beautiful drushim , sweet honey … from the sacred mouth of the rabbi, the gaon, the famous butzina kaddisha , pious and ascetic Rabbi Gershon ztzlh”h … av beit din of Kolomyya.”
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of the author, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kossov, author of Ahavat Shalom , brought to print by his widow, Rebbetzin Sarah Leah, daughter of the Ahavat Shalom, who did not have the privilege of having children, and printed this sefer in his memory.
With an approbation from the author of Divrei Chaim of Sanz, and the brothers, the Admo”r Rabbi Ya’akov Shimshon of Kossov and the Admo”r Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vizhnitz, author of Tzemach Tzaddik – sons of the author’s brother-in-law, the Admo”r Rabbi Chaim, the Torat Chaim of Kossov.
Special copy. Most copies end with a dvar Torah for the completion of the Torah and its beginning, delivered on 27 Tishrei 1939. This copy has an additional two leaves (marked 95-96) with Likkutim Nechmadim MiPaz U’MiPeninim Yekarim (leaf 87 [“פז”])
Uncommon sefer .
Stefansky, Chassidut 448
[2]: 107, 86 [3 leaves [1], 95-96]. 24×25 cm.
Fine-very fine condition. Loose binding.