Bidspirit auction | Chassidut, First Edition. Iyun Tefillah.

Chassidut, First Edition. Iyun Tefillah. Lvov 1849. A rare sefer. A disciple of the author of Da'at Kedoshim. - Sefer Iyun Tefillah - a work containing commentary and halakhic discussions on the prayer book for the entire year, by Rabbi Shemaria Shemeril (Branderis), son of Rabbi Yaakov, Av Beit Din of Hrymailiv. As stated on the title page, he composed it during a time of persecution, when he was prevented from engaging in in-depth Torah study. First Edition. Lemberg, 1849. A rare Chasidic commentary, containing numerous references to leading figures of Hasidism and halakhah, including: “the Siddur of Rabbi Kapil” and other Kabbalistic prayer books; Hasidic customs, among them the recitation of Psalm 107 (“Hodu la-Hashem ki tov”) before the Friday afternoon Minḥah prayer, in accordance with the enactment of the Baal Shem Tov; a discussion regarding the custom of reciting “Hallelu-Yah” twice in Pesukei de-Zimra according to Hasidic practice; and many others. It mentions the Maggid of Zlotshov and his son Rebbi Ze’ev of Zbarazh; Rebbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev; Rebbi Avraham David of Buchach — who was his teacher, from whom he records many teachings he received or heard directly; Rabbi Shlomo Kluger, including reference to a responsum he sent him; dozens of mentions of Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Margolies, whom he calls “my teacher”; as well as many references to the Vilna Gaon and other great halakhic authorities. This edition is unique in its present form (about a decade after its printing, this work was incorporated into the siddur Seder Nehora HaShalem, printed in Pressburg in 1859). The author, Rabbi Shemaria Shemeril Branderis (1780–1857), son of Rabbi Yaakov, served as Av Beit Din of Trembovla and Rimalov (two towns in the Ternopil district of present-day Ukraine). He was a leading disciple of Rabbi Avraham David of Buchach, author of Da’at Kedoshim, and of Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Margolies, author of Mateh Ephraim. He immigrated to the Land of Israel in 1852, and five years later passed away in Jerusalem, where he was buried on the Mount of Olives. His position in Hrimalov was filled by his son Rabbi Yosef Meir, Av Beit Din of Oschia. His brother, Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch, was a follower of Rebbi Yisrael of Ruzhin. He was the author of this work as well as Kehillot Yaakov on Ecclesiastes, and was among the leading rabbis of Jerusalem who signed, in 1856, the ban (ḥerem) against schools of the Haskalah (see further: Me’orei Galicia, vol. I, pp. 618–619).  24 Leaves. 17.7 cm.