Toldot Adam VeChavah and Sefer Meisharim, by Rabbeinu Yerucham. Kopust: Avraham son of Yaakov Segal and Yitzchak son of Shmuel, 1808.

Three parts in one volume. Divisional title page for third part. Approbations of R. Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev (end of approbation affected by open tear), R. Chaim of Volozhin and others.

R. Yerucham son of R. Meshulam of Provence was a 14th century Torah scholar and disciple of the Rosh who passed through southern France on his way to Spain. His halachic works are Sefer Meisharim and Sefer Adam VeChavah, and he is cited frequently by the Beit Yosef.

Distinguished copy, from the library of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar.

On the title page appears the stamp: "Yoel Teitelbaum, Rabbi of Irshava and the region". We surmise that these stamps were made and stamped on the books at a later date than his rabbinic tenure in Irshava – see Kedem, Auction 99, 5 November 2024, Lot 185. The title page contains catalog inscriptions (deleted) made during the arrangement of the Satmar Rebbe's library in his home in the United States.

On pages of book and inner title page of Part III, early stamp: "Yaakov son of R. M. Y. S." [possibly one of the dayanim in the Beit Din of R. Eliyahu Guttmacher Rabbi of Grodziec, in 1851 – see Responsa of R. Eliyahu Guttmacher, Even HaEzer, 18, p. 63].

On title page, handwritten signature (dating to ca. 1840s): "Yehoshua Falk son of R. Tzvi Hirsch Auerbach" – R. Yehoshua Falk Auerbach, Rabbi of Brisk (Brześć Kujawski) and Polotsk, son of R. Tzvi Hirsch Auerbach, Rabbi of Konin (d. 1883).

Signature on back endpaper. Short handwritten glosses on p. 103b (of first sequence).

Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979), author of Divrei Yoel, a leader of his generation, president of the Edah HaCharedit in Jerusalem and leader of American Orthodox Jewry, one of the founding pillars of Chassidic Jewry after the Holocaust. Born in Sighet, he was the son of Rebbe Chananiah Yom Tov Lipa, the Kedushat Yom Tov, and grandson of Rebbe Yekutiel Yehudah, the Yitav Lev, who both served as rabbis of Sighet (Sighetu Marmației) and were leaders of Chassidic Jewry in the Maramureș region. He was renowned from his youth for his acumen and intelligence, as well as for his holiness and outstanding purity. After his marriage to the daughter of Rebbe Avraham Chaim Horowitz of Polaniec, he settled in Satmar and taught Torah and Chassidut to an elite group of disciples and followers. He later served as Rabbi of Irshava (1911-1915, 1922-1926), Karoly (Carei; from 1926) and Satmar (Satu Mare; from 1934), managing in each of these places a large yeshiva and Chassidic court. He stood at the helm of faithful, uncompromising Orthodox Jewry in the Maramureș region. During the Holocaust, he was rescued through the famous Kastner Train, and after a journey through Bergen-Belsen, Switzerland and Eretz Israel, he reached the United States, where he established one of the largest Chassidic communities in the world.

[1], 10, 6, 17-185, [1]; 5, 5-82 leaves. 33.5 cm. Varying condition of leaves, fair to good-fair. Stains. Worming, affecting text, partially repaired with paper filling. Tears and open tears, affecting text, including open tear to title page, affecting text on verso. Margins of title page and other leaves repaired with paper. Some leaves may have been supplied from another copy. Stamps. New elegant leather bindings.