Va'Yaged Ya'akov, by Rabbi Ya'akov Chizkiya Greenwald - Satmar, 1944 - First Edition which Most of Its Copies were ...

Va'Yaged Ya'akov, by Rabbi Ya'akov Chizkiya Greenwald - Satmar, 1944 - First Edition which Most of Its Copies were Destroyed in the Holocaust
Divrei Aggadah and Halacha and Divrei Torah on the Sabbath and the holy days, by Rabbi Ya'akov Chizkiya Greenwald. Edited by his son, Rabbi Yosef Greenwald. The book also contains Chidushei Mishnayot of the Yoma and Sukkah tractates from a manuscript by the author of "Arugot Ha'Bosem", Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, the author's father. It also contains the booklet "Tzedah La'Derech" - the last will and testament of the author, with Likutei Mussar which were found in his writings. The chapters of the book are full of sayings of the Ba'al Shem Tov and other leading Hassidic rabbis.
At the beginning of the book, a long introduction (16 pp.) by the author's son describing his father's history and praising him. Then there is a "a copy of a letter written by our rabbi to the battlefield in 1915" with words of comfort and support and "a copy of a letter written by our rabbi in 1941 to his son-in-law and disciples who were in army camps in those terrible days".

Rabbi Ya'akov Chizkiya Greenwald (1882-1941) Av Beit Din of Puppa, the son and disciple of Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, author of "Arugot Ha'Bosem" and Av Beit Din of Hust. In 1900, he married the daughter of his uncle Rabbi Yisreal Menachem Bruijn, who was Av Beit Din of Razowitz.
He was close to the Rebbes, Rabbi Yechezkel Sheraga Halberstam, Rabbi Yissachar Dov Roke'ach of Belz and his son Rabbi Aharon Rekeach of Belz.
In 1906, he became the rabbi of Tzehlim, where he founded an important yeshiva. In 1929, he became the rabbi of the Haredi community of Puppa. Hundreds of students studied at his yeshiva there and it became one of the most important yeshivas in Hungary.
After his death, his son, Rabbi Yosef Greenwald, replaced him. After the Holocaust, he migrated to the USA, where he reestablished his community, the "Ya'akov Puppa" community and became one of the leading rabbis and rebbes in the USA.

Extremely rare! Almost all the copies of the book were destroyed in the Holocaust.
In the introduction to the second edition, the author's son wrote: "before the revolution I published the book … yet close to its publishing there was a revolution by evil persons and I did not distribute the books, but for a few, and the rest have been lost".
This first edition does not appear in libraries in Israel and is not listed by the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book.
Before us is a rare copy of the book, excellently preserved with the original binding with a golden impression of its title.
In 1947, a facsimile edition of the book was published in Antwerp with changes. In this edition, several passages that the author's son had written about the author's family and descendants were replaced by a short passage inmemory of the family members who died in the Holocaust.

[10] 14, 160 pp. 24 cm.
Condition: Very Good.