Auction 75 - Rare and Important Items
Manuscript, Homilies for Rosh Hashanah – Handwritten by Rebbe Tzvi Hirsh of Liska – Including Unpublished Homilies – Liska, 1864-1867
Opening: $15,000
Estimate: $30,000 - $50,000
Sold for: $45,000
Including buyer's premium
Ten leaves (twenty pages) handwritten by Rebbe Tzvi Hirsh Friedman Rabbi of Liska (Olaszliszka) – homilies for Rosh Hashanah. [Liska], 1864-1867.
Ten leaves handwritten by the author Rebbe Tzvi Hirsh (with emendations and deletions in the body of the text).
Most of these homilies were published after the passing of the author in his book HaYashar VehaTov (Munkacs, 1880), after being edited. These are the original homilies, as they were recorded by the author, with textual variations compared to the printed version (see foreword to Ach Pri Tevuah, by the publisher R. Ze'ev Wolf, grandson of the author, who explains how he edited and corrected the original text, with the consent of his grandfather).
Additionally, several passages in this manuscript were presumably never published (leaves 53-54a).
These homilies were recorded and delivered by the rebbe in 1864-1867. At the top of some homilies, the rebbe noted whether he actually delivered them in public or not: "1864, on Rosh Hashanah. This I have not yet delivered in public" (14a); "On Rosh Hashanah, I delivered this homily before the congregation in 1864" (17b); "I said this on Rosh Hashanah 1864 (19b); "I said this on Rosh Hashanah night on the verse…" (20b); "On Rosh Hashanah 1865" (51a); "In 1867, what I said on Rosh Hashanah" (67a); "On Rosh Hashanah 1867" (68). Some of these inscriptions were not published.
In his foreword to HaYashar VehaTov, R. Ze'ev Wolf, publisher and grandson of the author, describes these homilies for the High Holidays: "How magnificent was our teacher during the holy days, while standing before the holy ark, clothed in white, and his face glowed like embers and torches, his appearance was like that of a g-dly angel, his eyes closed, his hands stretched out over the heads of the congregants, like a priest blessing the people… and although he was weak, his voice resounded like the roar of a lion, uprooting mountains and splitting the heavens… his words, which emerged from the depth of his heart, entered deep into the hearts of his listeners, until everyone cried freely… fortunate are the eyes who witnessed all this". In his foreword to the first book of the author, Ach Pri Tevuah, the publisher mentions the writings the author left behind: "All were innovated in his old age, since the Torah novellae which he composed in his youth, were unfortunately all consumed by a fire in Poland".
Rebbe Tzvi Hirsh Friedman, rabbi of Liska (1798-1874), a leading Hungarian rebbe, from the first generation of the Chassidic movement in Hungary. A disciple of the Yismach Moshe, Rebbe Shalom of Belz, Rebbe Yisrael of Ruzhin, Rebbe Meir of Premishlan and the Divrei Chaim of Sanz. He was renowned as a wonder-worker, and people flocked to him from all over the country to receive his blessings. He authored Ach Pri Tevua and HaYashar VehaTov. His illustrious disciple was R. Yeshaya of Kerestir, who used to sign: "Who was the close attendant of the pious rabbi of Liska".
[10] leaves (twenty written pages). 25 cm. Good condition. Stains (including dark ink stains and dampstains).
Ten leaves handwritten by the author Rebbe Tzvi Hirsh (with emendations and deletions in the body of the text).
Most of these homilies were published after the passing of the author in his book HaYashar VehaTov (Munkacs, 1880), after being edited. These are the original homilies, as they were recorded by the author, with textual variations compared to the printed version (see foreword to Ach Pri Tevuah, by the publisher R. Ze'ev Wolf, grandson of the author, who explains how he edited and corrected the original text, with the consent of his grandfather).
Additionally, several passages in this manuscript were presumably never published (leaves 53-54a).
These homilies were recorded and delivered by the rebbe in 1864-1867. At the top of some homilies, the rebbe noted whether he actually delivered them in public or not: "1864, on Rosh Hashanah. This I have not yet delivered in public" (14a); "On Rosh Hashanah, I delivered this homily before the congregation in 1864" (17b); "I said this on Rosh Hashanah 1864 (19b); "I said this on Rosh Hashanah night on the verse…" (20b); "On Rosh Hashanah 1865" (51a); "In 1867, what I said on Rosh Hashanah" (67a); "On Rosh Hashanah 1867" (68). Some of these inscriptions were not published.
In his foreword to HaYashar VehaTov, R. Ze'ev Wolf, publisher and grandson of the author, describes these homilies for the High Holidays: "How magnificent was our teacher during the holy days, while standing before the holy ark, clothed in white, and his face glowed like embers and torches, his appearance was like that of a g-dly angel, his eyes closed, his hands stretched out over the heads of the congregants, like a priest blessing the people… and although he was weak, his voice resounded like the roar of a lion, uprooting mountains and splitting the heavens… his words, which emerged from the depth of his heart, entered deep into the hearts of his listeners, until everyone cried freely… fortunate are the eyes who witnessed all this". In his foreword to the first book of the author, Ach Pri Tevuah, the publisher mentions the writings the author left behind: "All were innovated in his old age, since the Torah novellae which he composed in his youth, were unfortunately all consumed by a fire in Poland".
Rebbe Tzvi Hirsh Friedman, rabbi of Liska (1798-1874), a leading Hungarian rebbe, from the first generation of the Chassidic movement in Hungary. A disciple of the Yismach Moshe, Rebbe Shalom of Belz, Rebbe Yisrael of Ruzhin, Rebbe Meir of Premishlan and the Divrei Chaim of Sanz. He was renowned as a wonder-worker, and people flocked to him from all over the country to receive his blessings. He authored Ach Pri Tevua and HaYashar VehaTov. His illustrious disciple was R. Yeshaya of Kerestir, who used to sign: "Who was the close attendant of the pious rabbi of Liska".
[10] leaves (twenty written pages). 25 cm. Good condition. Stains (including dark ink stains and dampstains).
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