Bidspirit auction | Torah Or. Second Edition, Zhitomir

Torah Or. Second Edition, Zhitomir 1862 – First Edition of ”Hosafot”. Magnificent Copy. - Sefer Torah Or, Chassidic essays on Bereshit and Shemot, and Megilat Esther, by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi – the Baal HaTanya and Shulchan Aruch. Zhitomir: R. Chanina Lipa and R. Yehoshua Heschel Shapira, grandsons of the rabbi of Slavita, 1862. Second edition of Torah Or with first edition of Hosafot L'Sefer Torah Or . Sefer. The first sefer has two title pages. The first title page bears the name of the sefer and the place of print in red ink. Some of the supplements were printed as a work in its own right with a special title page (for a total of three title pages). Beautiful etching at the end of each of the two works. Torah Or is a fundamental work of Chassidut Cahabd. It was written from teachings heard directly from Baal HaTanya by his brother, R. Yehuda Leib of Janowiec, author of ”She'erit Yehuda”, and was edited by his disciple and grandson, Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the Tzemach Tzedek of Lubavitch. Sefer Torah Or was among the last Jewish seforim to be printed in Tsarist Russia before all Jewish printing houses were shut down by the authorities in 1836 (”the printing decree”), the result of a malicious Maskilic ”informing”. From then on, only two printing houses were allowed to operate, in Vilna and Zhitomir, both under strict supervision by the Tsarist government. 102, 24 Leaves. 27.7 Cm.