Bidspirit auction | LeDavid Emet, by the Chida.

LeDavid Emet, by the Chida. Zhitomir, 1857. - Sefer LeDavid Emet, by Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Azulai, the Chida. A halachic work on the laws of writing a Torah scroll, Torah reading, and the synagogue. Includes Kuntres Acharon and Torat HaShlemim. Zhitomir, 1857. Printed by the righteous Rabbis Chanina Lipa and Yehoshua Heshel Shapira, grandsons of the Rabbi of Slavuta. 50 Leaves. Special pocket-size edition. 14.5 cm. With the stamp of Rabbi Yaakov Eskolsky (1876–1931), a Lithuanian-American rabbi. He served as rabbi of Rubelya and Kuzhan Horodok in the Russian Empire; after immigrating to the United States, he was rabbi in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and in the New York congregations of Anshei Slutsk and Anshei Bialystok.