Auction 86 Part 1 Rare and Important Items
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Likutei Torah – Zhitomir, 1848 – First Edition / Torah Or – Zhitomir, 1862 – First Edition of Hosafot LeSefer Torah Or

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Likutei Torah – Zhitomir, 1848 – First Edition / Torah Or – Zhitomir, 1862 – First Edition of Hosafot LeSefer Torah Or
Two classic works of Chabad Chassidut – Likutei Torah (first edition, in four volumes), and Torah Or, with Hosafot LeSefer Torah Or (first edition of the supplements):
1. Likutei Torah, four parts, Chassidic essays on the books of Vayikra-Devarim, the festivals and Shir HaShirim, by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi – the Baal HaTanya. Zhitomir: R. Chanina Lipa, R. Aryeh Leib and R. Yehoshua Heshel Shapira, grandsons of the Rabbi of Slavita, 1848. First edition.
Likutei Torah is considered one of the most important and fundamental books in Chabad Chassidic thought. The book contains the discourses on the books of Vayikra-Devarim (and on Parashiot Beshalach and Pekudei), while the discourses on the books of Bereshit and Shemot are printed in the book Torah Or (Kopust 1837).
The book contains homilies which the Baal HaTanya delivered to the public on Shabbat and festivals, as well as commentaries which he gave over to his sons and select disciples during the course of the week, to clarify what he had said in the Shabbat sermon. The homilies mostly deal with the Chassidic approach to worship of G-d, while the commentaries explain and simplify kabbalistic concepts, based on Chassidic teachings.
The book was written and arranged by the grandson and close disciple of the Baal HaTanya, the Tzemach Tzedek. A third of the book comprises glosses and sources written by the Tzemach Tzedek. The book was brought to print by the sons of the Tzemach Tzedek, Rebbe Yehuda Leib of Kopust and Rebbe Chaim Shneur Zalman of Liadi.
The book Beit Rebbi (Berdychiv 1902, I, p. 173) reports in the name of one of the rebbes (presumably the Magen Avot of Kopust), that the homilies in Likutei Torah are word for word the teachings which the Baal HaTanya received from R. Avraham HaMalach, son of the Maggid of Mezeritch, and that each letter is permeated with Divine Inspiration.
Four volumes. Vol. I (Vayikra): [2], 8; 50 leaves. Vol. II (Bamidbar): [1], 96 leaves. Vol. III (Devarim): [1], 100 leaves. Vol. IV (Shir HaShirim): [1], 2-3, 3-51 leaves. 27.5-29.5 cm. Vols. III and IV wide-margined. Condition varies, good-fair to fair. Stains, including dampstains. Vols. I and II with many dampstains. Tears to several leaves, repaired with paper. Tears to title page of vol. I, affecting text and border, repaired with paper. Wear and creases to title page of vol. I and several other leaves. Worming, affecting text. Several places reinforced with paper and tape. Handwritten inscriptions. New bindings.
Stefansky Chassidut, no. 297.
The Vayikra volume of Likutei Torah includes a leaf of approbations (leaf [2]) which is not listed in the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book or in Stefansky Chassidut, nor does it appear in any other copy known to us.
2. Torah Or, Chassidic essays on Bereshit and Shemot, Chanukah and Purim, including Hosafot LeSefer Torah Or (Supplements to Torah Or), by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi – the Baal HaTanya. Zhitomir: R. Chanina Lipa and R. Yehoshua Heshel Shapira, grandsons of the Rabbi of Slavita, 1862. First edition of the supplements.
Two title pages at the beginning of the book (the first one printed in red and black). The second title page states: "Reprinted most elegantly and corrected…". Divisional title page for Hosafot LeSefer Torah Or.
The supplements include 15 new essays of the Baal HaTanya. While most of the book is based on the writings of the author's brother, R. Yehuda Leib of Janowiec, the essays printed in the supplements were written by the author's son, Rebbe Dov Ber, the Mitteler Rebbe of Lubavitch, as the title page of this section states.
A tradition is cited in the book Beit Rebbi (Berdychiv 1902, II, p. 34), that the essays printed in the supplements were edited and abridged by the Tzemach Tzedek, son-in-law of the Mitteler Rebbe.
102; 24 leaves. 26.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Handwritten inscriptions. New binding.
Stefansky Chassidut, no. 612.