Bidspirit auction | SALANT, SHMUEL. His personal copy

SALANT, SHMUEL. His personal copy of: Derech HaMelech [sermons, including in memory of the author’s father and of his mother] by Yechiel Mechel ben Yehudah Leib. [Shklov], 1798. Title page with signature and stamps of R. Shmuel Salant. ff. 60. Wormed, outer corners of several leaves with some loss, few remargined, final two leaves repaired. Modern boards. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Shklov 103. Leader of Jerusalem’s Old Yishuv and founder of the Rabbi Meir Ba’al HaNess charity, the saintly R. Shmuel Salant (1816-1909) was supremely dedicated to the maintenance of the various Kollels of Jerusalem. His overall orientation was to follow the approach of the Vilna Gaon and those of his disciples who arrived in Eretz Israel from Lithuania in the late 18th-century. See www.rabbimeirbaalhaneis.com/history_salant.asp