Bidspirit auction | Chumash Bereshit – First Edition

Chumash Bereshit – First Edition of the Panim Yafot by the Haflaa – Ostroh 1825. Beautiful as new copy! Rabbi Akiva Eger's Blessing for those who Purchase the Sefer. - Chumash Bereshit, with the Rashi commentary, Baal HaTurim and the Panim Yafot commentary by the Gaon Rabbi Pinchas HaLevi Horowitz Rabbi of Frankfurt am Main, a disciple of the Maggid of Mezeritch. Ostroh, 1825. First edition. With the approbations of the Ohev Yisrael of Apta. A complete and perfect copy with both title pages in magnificent condition! This sefer was published two decades after the passing of the author. The sefer consists of commentaries on the Torah, following various approaches – the basic meaning, pilpul, derush, remez, ethics, kabbalah and chassidut. The sefer was compiled and brought to press by the mechutan of the author, the Gaon Rabbi Efraim Zalman of Brody, who also composed a lengthy, detailed and interesting foreword, printed at the beginning of the volume. R. Efraim also added at the end of the volume his own commentary to Rashi, named Shem Efraim. Some copies do not include the Shem Ephraim commentary. But present volume does. Rabbi Akiva Eiger (in his approbation to part 2, not present) writes about the importance and merit of acquiring this sefer: ”Fortunate is the righteous one who grasps his way, which shall be called the holy way, to take this Torah sefer into his house and within his walls, and the house shall be filled with light like the steady dawn at its rising.” Additionally, Part 2 includes approbations from the Chatam Sofer, Rabbi Yaakov of Lissa, and the Baruch Ta'am. The title page states: ”Panim Yafot… part III of the Haflaa composition”. The first parts of the Haflaa: Ketubah on Tractate Ketubot (Offenbach 1787) and HaMikneh on Tractate Kiddushin (Offenbach 1801). [4], 106, 83-122, [3] leaves (special haftarahs), 7 leaves (the 'Shem Ephraim' commentary). Mispaginated. 20.3 Cm. Stefansky, Chassidut 220.