Auction 103 Part 2 Early Printed Books | Sabbateanism and Crypto-Jews of Spain and Portugal | Chassidut and Kabbalah | Books Printed in Slavita and Jerusalem | Letters and Manuscripts
Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat – Two Volumes – Zhitomir, 1856 – Handwritten Glosses
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Torat Kohanim, Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat, Parts I-II, with commentators. Zhitomir: R. Chanina Lipa and R. Yehoshua Heshel Shapiro, grandsons of the Rabbi of Slavita, 1856. Two volumes.
Two title pages for each part. Some words on title pages printed in red ink.
In first volume: tens of handwritten glosses, lengthy and short.
In second volume: ownership stamp of R. "Yehudah Leib Chaikin – dayan and posek in Babruysk".
R. Yehudah Leib Chaikin ("Yudel the dayan") was the dayan of the Chabad community of Babruysk in the 1910s-1920s. Posek in the Beit Din of Rebbe Shemaryahu Noach Schneersohn, Rabbi of Babruysk (grandson of the Tzemach Tzedek of Lubavitch).
Two volumes. Part I: 556; 25 pages. Part II: 528 pages. 37.5-38 cm. Overall fair-good condition. Many stains, including dampstains (especially to first volume). Wear. Tears, including many marginal open tears to title page and other leaves of first volume (bordering text). Worming, affecting text (mainly to second volume). Old bindings, with defects.
Part II, and index leaves at end of Part I, not recorded in NLI library.
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