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Tikkun Leil Shavu'ot – Vilnius 1837 – the Copy of the Rebbe Rabbi Alter Biderman of Lelov with His Signature

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Tikkun Leil Shavu'ot Ve'Hoshana Rabba, according to the book Shnei Luchot Ha'Brit (Ha'Shela Ha'Kadosh). At the end of the book, the Piyyut "Akdamot" for the first day of Shavu'ot.
At the end of the book, a signature: "Avraham Bezalel ben rabbi Elazar nachum". His stamps (shaped as a handwritten signature): "Alter ben … Rabbi Elazar Menachem". On the Forsazt leaf, a later stamp: "Avraham Bezalel Natan Neta ben Rabbi Elazar Menachem Biderman. Jerusalem". Throughout the book, the above stamps.
The Rebbe Rabbi Alter Biderman (1862-1933) was born in Jerusalem to his father the Rebbe Rabbi Elazar mendel of Lelov (the son of Rabbi Moshe Leib of Lelov, the grandson of the Seer of Lublin). He was named "Avraham Bezalel Natan Neta" yet was called by all "Alter". In 1894, he travelled to Poland and became the leader of the Hassidic community of Sosnowiec, Poland, where he was called "Der Eretz Yisrael Rebbe".
Vilnius and Grodno. Printed by Menachem ben Baruch and Simcha Zimmel ben Menachem Nachum.
On the last leaf, a signature: "The speech of Baruch ben Rabbi Yitzchak … of Pinsk".
20 cm.
3-4 [the first leaf might be missing), 1-192 [1] leaves.
Condition: Good. Original decorated leather binding, damaged at its front and spine. The binding and several leaves are loose. Single leaves are detached.

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