Bidspirit auction | A Tzaddik's Sefer. Copy Belonged

A Tzaddik's Sefer. Copy Belonged to OSTROVO REBBE ob”m, author of 'Toldot Adam'. - Sefer 'Ktoret HaMizbeach' - Amsterdam1660, on the destruction of the Holy Temple and the length of the exile. Author: Mordechai ben Naftali Hirsch, of Kroměříž. Printed in Amstildam (Amsterdam) in the year 5420 (1660). A rare book in itself, which has not appeared for sale. In the margins of the first page, the stamp of Admor Rabbi: ”Yehoshua ben HaRav Hamanoach Moharshal ztz”l zy”a - of Sosnowiec and now in Ostrova”. * Admor Rabbi Yehoshua of Ostrova (5579 - 5633), one of the Tzaddikim of Poland, son of Rabbi Shlomo Leib of Leczna. After his father, he led a large community of thousands of Chassidim and was known for his greatness and holiness. Rabbi Tzadok HaKohen of Lublin said about him that he was a ”Guardian of the Holy Covenant”. Author of the book ”Toldot Adam” (Józefów 5635), which was nicknamed ”the small Noam Elimelech”. His son-in-law was Admor Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov Rabinowitz of Biala - the first in the Biala Chassidic dynasty. *