Torat Chaim – Prague, 1692 – Signature of Rabbi Moshe Shneuri, the Son of the Alter Rebbe – Additional Signatures

The book Torat Chaim by Rabbi Avraham Chaim Schor – Prague, 1692 – First edition. Novellae on the tractates of Eruvin, Sanhedrin, Shvu'ot, Avodah Zara, Chulin, Pesachim, Baba Kama, Baba Metziah and Baba Batra.
On the lower part of the title page, a signature: "Moshe Shneur". Maybe the signature of Rabbi Moshe Shneuri, the well-known son of the Alter Rebbe Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi.
On the reverse side of the title page: "Belongs to the young Elchanan Henley the son of the rabbinical Dayan Rabbi Netanel Fiurda…", that is, Rabbi Elachanan Henley Fiurda, a Dayan at the Manheim community.
Additional ownership inscriptions.
Rabbi Moshe Shneur (Shneuri), the third and youngest son of the founder of Chabad-Lubavitch Hassidism, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi. He was born in Liozna, his father's town. His year of birth is not clear yet it is assumed that he was born around 1779. 
On the eve of the 15th of Kislev 5558 (4.12.1797) the Avrech "M Moshe was a accepted as a member of the Chevra Kadisha of Liozna" (the notebook of the Chevra Kadisha of Liozna, cited in "Ohalei Chabad" pp. 38). A week later, on Hanukkah 1797, Rabbi Moshe married Shifra, daughter of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Rivlin of Ulla (one of the followers of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi), the son of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman, a relative of the Vilna Gaon. After the wedding, Rabbi Moshe became the rabbi of Ulla. There he corresponded with the "Tzemach Tzedek", who referred to him in his responsa book as "my beloved, the sharp Rabbi Moshe of Ulla". 
Rabbi Moshe was a favorite of his father. He used to repeat the teachings of his father word for word and then wrote them down. He was called a "Chozer" (repeater), that is qualified to repeat his father's teachings to anyone who had not heard the, from him. His father said of him: "My son Moshe has great talents. His excellent memory will never leave him". 
The manuscripts in his handwriting with his father's teaching were kept in the archives of Chabad and were recently printed in the series of books "Ma'amarei Admor Ha'Zaken". These manuscripts also include what his father had heard from the Maggid of Mezeritch. Rabbi Moshe also wrote "Hanachot" (transcriptions) of his father's sayings and Ma'amarim during the years 1801-1808. 
There are also volumes of manuscripts by Rabbi Moshe with commentary of the book "Pri Etz Chaim" by the Ari. These were written when Rabbi Moshe studied with the "Tzemach Tzedek". Rabbi Moshe signed with his brothers the Rebbes an approbation of the book "Ha'Tanya" and an introduction of "Shulchan Aruch Ha'Rav". 
In 1813, when he was in his thirties, he became sick and from then on suffered greatly. His sickness broke out after a traumatic and shocking event in his life: Rabbi Moshe was imprisoned in Shklov by the French, who suspected he was a spy. He was sentenced to death; however, after seeing his medical condition, he was released. These details were revealed only recently in a letter by his brother, the Rebbe Rabbi Dovber. The letter and its translation from Russian were printed for the first time in the book "Ne'echaz Ba'Sevach" by David Asaf. 
The outbreak of his illness did not affect his piety. He is called by the rabbis of Chabad "The Tzaddik Rabbi Moshe" or "The Holy Rabbi Moshe". After the outbreak of his illness, when he was unable to answer complex halachic questions, his wife, the Rebbetzen Shifra, sent some of them to her husband's uncle the Maharil and to the Tzemach Tzedek and their responses to her were printed in the "She'erit Yehuda" responsa (Vilnius, 1840).
On his imprisonment, see attached material according to the original documents that have been discovered recently and according to the letter of Rabbi Dobver ("Ayin Be'Ayin" by Rabbi Eliyahu Matusov, pp. 182 and forth).
[1], 71, 60 leaves. 30cm.
Condition: Good. New, half-leather binding. Time stains. Natural wear. A few moth holes throughout the book.