Tikkunei HaZohar printed by Rabbi Moshe Shapira. Slavita 1821. Copy owned by rabbis of the Schmerler family.

Tikkunei HaZohar printed by Rabbi Moshe Shapira. Slavita 1821. Copy owned by rabbis of the Schmerler family.
Tikkunei HaZohar “written by the Holy Tana Rabbi Shimon bar Yochay” with additions, printed by the Slavita Rav. 154 leaves. Approbations from Admor Rabbi Ephraim of Sadilkov, and the geonim Rabbi Yosef of Zaslav and Rabbi Aryeh Leib of Berdichev. Printed mostly on light-blue paper, with title page in red ink. Old binding is detached, leather spine, title page and approbations page are detached. Moth damage in a few locations, mostly not damaging text, stains, lone tears, overall condition of the content itself is good.

Many stamps: “Moshe Meir Schmerler in Tzfat”. Blank first page has notes from his son: “Mordechai Zvi Hirsch ben Haya Yehudis, for a refuah shlema/grandson of the Rahatz of Mikoliev.” Also a number of notes and glosses handwritten inside the work itself.

Rabbi Moshe Schmerler (1850-1919) was the son of Rabbi Mordechai Schmerler of Mikoliev, who was the son-in-law of the Admor Rabbi Haim Avraham of Mikoliev (son-in-law of Rabbi Meir of Przmyslan). Rabbi Moshe Meir was a student of the Admor Divrei Haim of Sanz. In 1880 he moved to Israel and settled in Tzfat. In 1917-18 there were bad conditions in Israel—his wife Haya Yehudis died on the first day of Rosh Chodesh Tevet 1917, and shortly afterwars the rabbi was required to sell his possessions and leave Israel for Europe via Turkey. During the journey he became ill and died on the 9th day of Cheshvan 1918, when he was in Istanbul. There he is buried.

His son Rabbi Mordechai Zvi Schmerler of Tzfat was the first to receive the Belzer Rebbe when he moved to Israel, at the Motza Yishuv.See Tzintzenet HaMan, Volume 3, p. 283.