Tur Yoreh Deah. Published by Rabbi Moshe Shapiro, Slovita, 1816.

Tur Yoreh Deah. Published by Rabbi Moshe Shapiro, Slovita, 1816.

Tur Yoreh Deah. Rabbi Moshe Shapiro publisher, Slovita, 1816.

146, 214 pages, 33cm. [page before the laws of Ribis and two last pages are missing.] Part printed on bluish paper. 

Rabbi Moshe Shapiro (1762-1837) son of Hrh"k Rabbi Pinchas of Koritz from the great students of the Ohr Shivat HaYamim the Ba'al Shem Tov, served as Rav in Slovita with no compensation. Famous as righteous, straight and honest, giant in Torah and Chassidut. On the advice of his holy father, he opened a printing press in his city for a livelihood. His printing press was famous for printing the magnificent Slovita edition of the Sha"s. In order to print beautiful sefarim he installed lettering castings to illuminate the eyes, he used valuable paper with wide margines and accurate proofreading's before printing. Gedolai Yisrael praised Rabbi Moshe and his press. In the year 1836 following a false libel his two holy sons were incarcerated, Rabbi Shmuel Avraham Aba and Rabbi Pinches. They were sentenced to harsh physical torture and were stood to be sent to exile in Siberia. From much pain and stress their father passed away on the 9th day of Kislev 1837. The sons were released after 17 years of incarceration in Moscow. The printing press was ruined and all its many investments went down the drain.

New cover, few stains, moth holes, torn on the sides of one of the pages, general condition good.