Drush Amud HaTvach – novellae, poems and printouts about Bialystock rabbis by Rabbi Ya’akov Yeshayah Pras. [Bialystock?] 1914. Very rare kuntress .
With Torah novellae eulogizing Bialystock rabbis: Rabbi Yitzchak – one of the city’s rabbis, and Rabbi Shlomo Zalman, the av beit din .
This sermon is part of the book Bayit Ne’eman including six sermons (“Amudim”). There are another two booklets known to be extant from 1830, in which the author printed his novellae, however, it appears that this work was not printed.
Lengthy and unusual notice on the last leaf about the duty and importance of the respect Jews must have for the peoples of the nations, “especially our lord, the great emperor Alexander Pavlovitz, merciful and generous benefactor to all those under his domain … He always stands with us and protects us, gives us all the freedom in the world …” This is a very unusual notice, even compared to other Russian-Polish prints of the time.
Recorded in Mif’al HaBibliographiah : [1814?] – with the question mark. However, the book was definitely printed that year, as the author writes that the book was written during the shloshim following Rabbi Shlomo Zalman’s passing, and Rabbi Shlomo Zalman passed away on 25 Adar 1814.
[4], 6, 17, [1] leaf. (The National Library records only [4], 17, [1] leaf). 19 cm. Antique stamp on the last leaf.
Fine-very fine condition. Aging stains. Simple binding.