Torah Or – Second Edition – Zhitomir 1862 – First Edition of "Hosafot" -

Torah Or – Second Edition – Zhitomir 1862 – First Edition of "Hosafot" -

Torah Or – Second Edition – Zhitomir, 1862 with First Edition of "Hosafot" .

Torah Or, Chassidic essays on Bereshit and Shemot, and Megilat Esther, by Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi – the Baal HaTanya and Shulchan Aruch.

Second edition of Torah Or with first edition of Hosafot L'Sefer Torah Or .

Zhitomir: R. Chanina Lipa and R. Yehoshua Heschel Shapira, grandsons of the rabbi of Slavita, 1862.

Sefer Torah Or is a fundamental work of Chassidut Cahabd. It was written from teachings heard directly from Baal HaTanya by his brother, R. Yehuda Leib of Janowiec, author of "She'erit Yehuda", and was edited by his disciple and grandson, Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, the Tzemach Tzedek of Lubavitch.

Sefer Torah Or was among the last Jewish books to be printed in Tsarist Russia before all Jewish printing houses were shut down by the authorities in 1836 ("the printing decree"), the result of a malicious Maskilic "informing". From then on, only two printing houses were allowed to operate, in Vilna and Zhitomir, both under strict supervision by the Tsarist government.

102, 24 Leaves. 27.7 Cm.

Overall Great condition, light water stains, first title page partially detached, original leather binding damaged.