LOT 96:
Copy of the Holy Admor Rebbi Avraham Mordechai Alter of Gur-the Imrei Emes.
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Copy of the Holy Admor Rebbi Avraham Mordechai Alter of Gur-the Imrei Emes.
Sefer Shaar Shimon, by Rabbi Shimon Segal of Lissa, brother in law & disciple of Rabbi Akiva Eger. Warsaw 1885.
Stamped "Avraham Mordechai Alter from Gur" & space for a shelf number. A rare survivor of his most famous library.
The Holy Admor Rebbi Avraham Mordechai Alter (1866-1948) was third Gerer rebbe. He was a pious genius, and the son of the Sfat Emet. He founded Agudath Israel and was one of the great leaders of haredi Jewry before the Holocaust, with tens of thousands of chassidim in Poland.