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LOT 12:
Tehillim - Minsk. Especially Rare Book
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Sold for: $4,600 (₪15,318)
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Tehillim - Minsk. Especially Rare Book
Psalms with the Midrash Chachamim commentary authored by the Gr"a's disciple, "the rabbi and preacher ... Rabbi Pinchas son of Yehudah of Plotzk" - "The Maggid of Plotzk." Minsk, 1809. Especially rare book.
The author writes in his preface: "I have had the privilege of serving the true gaon [many honorifics] Rabbi Eliyahu z"l of Vilna, and being in his presence was enough to absorb a whiff of his essence, and I absorbed that it is improper to go in a crooked way through various commentaries ..."
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of Rabbi Pinchas, known as "The Maggid of Plotzk."
Rare book, never put up for auction (a photocopy of the rare title page is printed in the book Ohel Rache"l on page 136.)
[1], 132 [should be 137] leaves, 21 cm. Bluish paper. Vinograd, Sifrei HaGr"a 1578.
Pedigree copy. Owners' signatures: Rabbi Ezra Attiah, Rabbi Aharon Brazani, leading rabbis of Mosul at the end of the 19th century.
Fine condition: Slight tears in the margins without damage or lack. Professional restoration to the margins of approximately 10 of the first and last leaves, with light damage to text in several words. Magnificent leather binding.
