Bidspirit auction | Rare Set – Chikrei Lev

Rare Set – Chikrei Lev – Five Parts. Copies of the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Salant. 1787–1832. First Edition. - Chazan (the Yera”ch, the Chakal), one of the foremost Sephardic sages of the later generations. Chikrei Lev, one of the foundational works of responsa and halachic literature, containing analyses, investigations, and notes arranged according to the Shulchan Aruch, by the Gaon and Kabbalist Rabbi Yosef Refoel Chazan, Av Beis Din of Izmir and later Rishon LeTzion and Chief Rabbi of Yerushalayim. Presented here are five parts printed in their first editions in Salonika and Livorno over a period of approximately forty-five years, illustrating the vast scope of this Torah enterprise and its central place in the Sephardic halachic world. The present set is incomplete, comprising five of the seven parts of the work. The complete set also includes the Even HaEzer volume and Yoreh Deah, Part II, which are not present here. Copy of the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Salant. Each title page bears the signature of the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Salant, and some volumes are additionally inscribed as belonging to the great Beis Yaakov Synagogue in the Churvas Rabbi Yehudah HeChasid. The Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Salant (5576–5669 [1816–1909]) was one of the foremost leaders of the Old Yishuv in Yerushalayim and a central figure of the Ashkenazic community in Eretz Yisroel. In 5601 [1841] he immigrated from the town of Salant in Lithuania to serve as halachic authority and leader of the Perushim, disciples of the Gra, who had settled in Yerushalayim. In the same period his father-in-law, the Tzaddik Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant, also settled there. For nearly seventy years he stood at the head of Jerusalem Jewry, directing its religious and communal institutions, establishing batei din, promoting Torah, educational, and charitable institutions, and strengthening the standing of the Ashkenazic community in the city. He was renowned for his wisdom, moderation, and exceptional ability to guide communal affairs under the complex conditions of Eretz Yisroel in his time, and his influence extended throughout Yerushalayim and many Jewish communities around the world. Additional ownership inscriptions on the title pages. Description of the Volumes and Condition. Orach Chaim. Salonika, 5547 [1787]. [2], 292 leaves. With approbations by Rabbi Yom Tov Algazi and Rabbi Dovid Pardo. Front board partially detached together with the spine. Time stains and worming to the margins of several leaves. Good to very good condition. Yoreh Deah, Part I. Livorno, 5554 [1794]. [1], 339 leaves. Front board detached together with the spine. Staining. Good to very good condition. Yoreh Deah, Part III. Salonika, 5566 [1806]. [1], 190 leaves. Apparently with the title page of Part II. Minor staining. Handwritten annotation within the text. Very good condition. Choshen Mishpat and Responsa, Part I. Salonika, 5577 [1817]. [2], 275 leaves. Front board detached together with the spine. Staining. Good to very good condition. Choshen Mishpat, Part II – Sho'el KaInyan UMeshiv KaHalachah. Salonika, 5592 [1832]. [2], 176 leaves. Paper repairs to the inner margins of the title page. Staining to several leaves. Worm tunnels to several leaves with slight loss to the text. Good condition. Printed on thick, high-quality paper. Overall good condition.