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Sefer HaZohar Shapira Press Slavita, 1824 Complete and Splendid Set * Sefer Zohar by the Tanna Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, edited and amended based on the Constantinople edition. A complete and beautiful set, printed on light green paper with title pages in red ink and with wide margins. This edition of Sefer HaZohar was printed by Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Shapira, son of the Slavita Rav, Rabbi Moshe Shapira. The sefer opens with an effusive approbation by the Ohev Yisrael of Apta, dated 9 Tammuz 5584 (1824), only nine months before his passing: “The beauty of the press in the holy congregation of Slavita is known throughout the land, as it is carried under the watchful eye of a righteous guide, the honorable Rav and famous chassid Moreinu Harav Moshe Shapira, Av Beis Din of the holy congregation of Slavita, and with Hashem’s will he succeeded in making his sefarim beautiful with all glory and splendor. And now, how good and pleasant it is that he wishes to reprint the Sifrei HaZohar, and I hereby deliver a warning to people to avoid infringing on his publishing rights… And those who listen shall be blessed with goodness… Hakatan Avraham Yehoshua Heschel of Apta, Mezhibuz.” On the reverse of the title page of Sefer Vayikrah, the printers explain that they printed the Zohar according to the Constantinople printing and not according to the Amsterdam printing, since the Constantinople edition is considered more accurate. In places where errors were found even in the Constantinople printing, they write that “we searched and searched thoroughly through many versions of the Zohar, both new and old, early versions from many, many years… and now these books of the Zohar are regarded as corrected, tenfold more so than all the earlier Zohar printings.” Slavita, 1824. Volume I (Bereishis): [3], 251, 17, 10 leaves. Volume II (Sefer Shemos) : [1], 17, 19–278 leaves. Volume III (Sefer Vayikrah–Bamidbar - Devarim): 115; [1], 117–309 leaves. Size : 20 cm. Three volumes with three title pages in red ink, and an additional internal title page for Sefer Bamidbar–Devarim. Complete set, bound in new leather bindings Previously sold : Genazym 2022 Sephardi signatures of Nissim Chiya Sid and his son Avraham Sid; stamp of Rabbi Yaakov Doctor, a physician in Tzfas, who founded a beis medrash there and donated his large and important library to it. *** Shapira Press “Every G-d fearing man should strive to purchase sefarim from old printings, the majority of which were printed by G-d-fearing men, and particularly from the Slavita and Zhitomir Presses [which were owned] by the grandchildren of the Admor of Koritz, who were exalted and exceedingly pious printers” (The Shomer Emunim in his sefer Taharas Hakodesh Ch. 6). ----------------------------------- Any inquiries about this lot? We are also available on WhatsApp >>>