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LOT 107:
Tanach. Goral HaGR"A Edition. Amsterdam, 1701
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Tanach. Goral HaGR"A Edition. Amsterdam, 1701
Biblia Hebraica. Amsterdam. Twenty-four. The five books of the Torah ... with Early and Later Prophets and Writings. Rabbi Aryeh Levin used this edition to do the goral HaGR"A. Amsterdam, 1701.
Specifiations: [6], 292 leaves, 293-306, [4] pages. 14 cm.
Title page illustrated with a copper engraving of Moshe and Aharon, two additional title pages in Hebrew and Latin. Introduction in Latin and a poem in Hebrew: "The Torah of the world which existed before any creation was created."
Unique Features: Rabbi Aryeh Levin used this edition to perform the goral HaGR"A, a procedure in which the Bible is opened in a mystical order in order to receive answers and Divine guidance, according to the traditions transmitted by Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna (HaGR"A). Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin, Rabbi Aharon Kotler and others utilized this method. But it was most famously used by Rabbi Aryeh Levin in 1950 to identify the corpses of 12 soldiers of the Convoy of the 35, which were otherwise unidentifiable [material attached].
Condition: Moderate-fine. Tears in the title page and the subsequent page without loss to text. Aging stains. Original antique leather binding, slightly blemished, with metal buckle for closure.
