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ETTIN, SCHNEUR CHANOCH HENOCH. Biur al Koheleth [Chassidic commentary to Book of Ecclesiastes]. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT written in Hebrew in a cursive Aschkenazic hand on paper, with erasures and corrections. Formerly in the library of R. Haim Liberman. ff. 43. Previous owners’ marks, stained, slight worming in places. Contemporary boards, covers loose, worn. 4to. (Vitebsk, 1848) UNPUBLISHED AUTOGRAPH COMMENTARY. A note on the final leaf identifies the author, a Dayan in Vitebsk (see Otzar HaRabanim 20175), who composed this manuscript during the cholera epidemic of 1848. The author’s father, R. Yeshayahu, was also Rabbi in Vitebsk. His grandfather, R. Nathan Nata, was a son-in-law of R. Yom Tov Lipman Schick of Shklov. R. Ettin’s manuscript is replete with references to Chabad philosophy.