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Sep 12, 2022
Pomona NY 10970, United States
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LOT 172:

Sefer Avodas HaKodesh, Slavuta 1827

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Sefer Avodas HaKodesh, Slavuta 1827

Sefer Avodas HaKodesh, Avodas Hashem and Kabbalah. By Rabbi Meir ben Gabai.

Slavuta, 1827, At the Press of Rabbi Shmuel Avraham son of Rabbi Moshe Shapiro.

Important Kabbalistic Sefer with approbations by leading Lithuanian rabbis who praise the publisher "the famed Chassid Rav, the son of the holy Moshe Shapiro Av Beis Din of Slavuta". Rabbi Chaim Rappaport Av Beis Din of Ostroh, Rabbi Avraham Abele Rosh Av Beis Din of Vilna and Rabbi Shlomo Zalman of Ir Chadash who was a family member of the Gra of Vilna.

The title page mentions Rabbi Shmuel Avraham Shapira as owner of the printing firm, yet the four approbations refer to his father Rabbi Moshe Shapira as the printer.

Overall in Good-Fair condition, greenish paper, repairs to title page, repairs with loss to text to first 3 pages, water stains, worming mostly to margins.

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