Tractate Shekalim from the Jerusalem Talmud with Pnei Zaken commentary by Rabbi [Yitzchak] Isaac Yehudah Yechiel [Safrin] of Komarno. Lvov, 1851. First edition.
The first edition of the illustrious Admor of Komarno’s composition, which he printed during his lifetime. In the introduction, he writes: “May the beholder not suspect that I have set out to contend with rabbeinu [in my work], G-d forbid …” A reference to Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna [the GR”A], whom he often critiqued, as well as maintaining text variations which he had rejected.
The Admor, gaon and kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Yehudah Yechiel of Komarno [1806-1874], nephew and primary disciple of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch of Ziditchov, was a rabbi in Ziditchov and Komarno, and served as Admor of Komarno. In conjunction, he traveled to the great Admors of the generation, especially Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heschel of Apta [the “Ohev Yisrael”] and then to Rabbi Yisrael of Ruzhin, who praised him excessively. He was famed as a wonder worker and had many chassidic followers. He composed works on the revealed and hidden aspects of Torah, and was known as the author of Heichal HaBerachah .
30 leaves [should be 29], mispaginated. 35 cm. Stefansky Chassidut 652.
Moderate condition. The book underwent professional restoration. Damage to text, primarily in the last three leaves.