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Rare: Kuntress Safah L'Ne'emanim by Rabbi Yehudah Adil, Maggid of Slonim. Lvov, 1793. First Edition . Copy of Rabbi Zundel of Salant! Signatures of Rabbi Zundel of Salant on the title page and on the last page. Additional 3.5 sides of Dikduk written by Rabbi Zundel of Salant. R. Zundel of Salant (1786–1866), was born in Salantai, Lithuania. In his youth he learned in the great Volozhin Yeshiva under R. Chaim Volozhiner. Following R. Chaim’s passing in 1821, he travelled to learn under R. Akiva Eiger. Although he was famous as a prodigious Talmid Chochom, he refused to accept a rabbinical position, instead supporting himself by running a small business. He spent most of his time involved in Torah and Mussar and provided the spiritual inspiration for his most famous student, R. Yisroel Salanter, founder of the Mussar movement. As a follower of the Vilna Gaon, R. Zundel longed to settle in Eretz Yisroel. Despite the enormous hardships involved in such an undertaking, in 1839 he moved to Yerusholayim. The small Ashkenazic community in Yerusholayim at that time was under the leadership and financial support of the Kollel Vilna, whose headquarters were in Amsterdam with a committee headed by the distinguished Dutch Jewish banker, R. Avrahom Tzvi Hirsch Lehren (1784–1853). Size: 18 cm Condition : Moderate condition, some repairs and damages, leather binding.