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Torah Or, by the Baal HaTanya – Kopust, 1836 – First Edition – Handwritten Signatures by R. Shaul Ginzburg of Kopust-Mir, Chassid of the Baal HaTanya and Great-Grandfather of Israel's 3rd President, Zalman Shazar
Torah Or, Vol. I – Chassidic essays on Bereshit and Shemot, Chanukah and Purim, by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi – the Baal HaTanya. Kopust (Kopys): Shabtai ben Simeon [Slavin], 1836. First edition. Two title pages; parts of title pages printed in red ink.
Gloss on leaf 28/2. Ownership inscriptions to title page: "Shaul Ginzburg of Mir"; "Shaul son of R. A. Sender Ginzburg of Kopust, in Mir" (Hebrew).
R. Shaul son of Alexander Sender Ginzburg (ca. 1785-1865), disciple of Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Baal HaTanya and Shulchan Aruch, Great-grandfather of Zalman Shazar, the State of Israel's 3rd president (Shazar's mother, Sarah, was the daughter of R. Moshe Ginzburg of Mir (ca. 1820-1912), son of R. Shaul Ginzburg of Kopust-Mir). According to his great-grandson Shazar, R. Ginzburg followed the instructions of his Rabbi the Baal HaTanya, and established the first Chassidic Minyan in the city of Mir, a stronghold of the Misnagdim (see [Hebrew]: Sefer Mir, Jerusalem 1963, pp. 263-264; Nassi and Chassid, Kfar Chabad, 1999; p. 31; Entsiklopedyah le-halutse ha-yishuv u-vonav, vol. 3, p. 1111).
Sefer 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. It was among the last Jewish books 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.
[1], 167, [1] ff. Approx. 21 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains. Severe ink stains to upper margins of title page and additional leaves. Open tears and worming to some leaves, affecting text, repaired with tape. Tape reinforcement to title page margins. Stamps and inscriptions. Fine new leather binding.
