Bidspirit auction | Tractate Horayot in Pocket Format

Tractate Horayot in Pocket Format – Special Edition for the Mitzvah of ”Uvalectecha Baderech” – Amsterdam 1727. Gift from a Grandson of Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin - Tractate Horayot, with Rashi's commentary, ”exactly as it was printed previously, with nothing omitted from its corrections and in the precise page-for-page format.” At the end are the novellae of the Maharsha, together with an additional work discovered in the manuscript of Rabbi Eliyahu Ettingin, author of Brit HaLevi. Amsterdam, 1727. Autograph self-dedication inscription by Rabbi Yosef of Lida, dated 1819, stating that he received the volume from his brother-in-law, Rabbi Eliyahu Akiva, son of Rabbi Elimelech ABD Lida and son-in-law of Rabbi Mordechai, who was himself the son-in-law of the renowned Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin. Rabbi Eliyahu Akiva passed away on Purim, 1875, and was buried in Lida. His tombstone reads: ”Here lies our venerable father, distinguished in wisdom and Torah, full of counsel and fear of Heaven, perfect and upright, who lived seventy-seven years upon this earth—Rabbi Eliyahu Akiva, son of the Gaon Rabbi Elimelech, Av Beit Din of this city. Elijah ascended [to Heaven] on the 14th of Adar II, 1874.” (Zikaron le-Rabbi Shmuel Tzvi Weltzman mi-Kalish) Also bearing an early ownership inscription of R. Moshe Meishel Horowitz of Antipolye. With the Latin-script ownership stamp: Moses Bodker, Warsaw. A separately printed pocket edition, not issued as part of a complete Talmud set. As stated on the title pages of the similarly printed tractates Ta'anit and Chagigah (Amsterdam, 1723): ”Produced in a small volume so that a man may carry it in the fold of his cloak and study it even while walking on the road...” Printed by Rabbi Uri Feivish of Himelburg. A special edition in which every two pages correspond to a single page of the standard editions. The Tosafot and the Maharsha's novellae were printed at the end of the tractate. The Tosafot to Horayot had previously appeared in the Frankfurt am Main Talmud edition of 1720–1722 (see: N. N. Rabinovitz, Ma'amar al Hadpasat ha-Talmud, Jerusalem, 1952, p. 111, note 4). [28] leaves. 18.4 cm.