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The First Sefer Printed by Rabbi Chanina Lipa Shapira of Zhitomir! Hafla'ah on Tractate Ketubot. Sudylkiv, 1833. - Sefer Hafla'ah, containing novellae on the Talmudic laws and aggadic passages of Tractate Ketubot, together with the laws of the ketubbah, by the holy Rabbi Pinchas HaLevi Horowitz, the renowned Ba'al Ha-Hafla'ah, Rabbi of Frankfurt am Main. He was a disciple of the holy Maggid of Mezeritch, brother of the saintly Rabbi Shmuel Shmelke of Nikolsburg, and the foremost teacher of the illustrious Chatam Sofer. Sudylkiv, 1833. According to the title page, the sefer was printed by Rabbi Chanina Lipa Shapira of Zhitomir. If so, this predates the establishment of his famous printing press in Zhitomir by many years—more than a decade before he founded it. Likewise, in the approbation of the Rabbi of Ostroh, the eminent Rabbi Chaim HaKohen, the printer is explicitly identified as Rabbi Chanina Lipa Shapira of Zhitomir.  4, 3-4, 164, 166-169 leaves. 37.6 cm.