Rare: Tiv Gittin and Kidushin by the Admor Rabbi Haim Yosef Gottlieb of Stropkov (chassidut)—first edition, Ungvar ...

Rare: Tiv Gittin and Kidushin by the Admor Rabbi Haim Yosef Gottlieb of Stropkov (chassidut)—first edition, Ungvar 1868, with a rare foreward by the author’s sons.

Sefer Tiv Gittin VeKidushin, Chiddushim by the Admor Rabbi Haim Yosef Gottlieb, the Av Beit Din of Stropkov (see below). First edition, Ungvar 1868. With approbations by the Divrei Haim of Sanz and Rabbi Zvi Hirsch of Liska and more. Rare Chassidic book which does not appear in Stefanski Chassidut! [3], 39 leaves, 7 pp. 

At its beginning, a leaf with a foreword by the author's sons "Menashe and Ephraim",   which does not appear in all copies, including that of the National Library. At its end, 7 pages with a list of subscribers, including rabbis and Admorim such as Rabbi Yechezkel Halberstam of Stropkov, Moshe Yosef Teitelbaum of Zabriv and the approbator, Rabbi Zvi Hirsch of Liska. The copy of the National LIbrary does not contain all the leaves with the list of subscribers. Leaves 35-39 include שמעתא דמצוה הבא בעברה in the name of Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried [!]. 

Old, detached card binding. Minor stains. Good general condition. 

The author Rabbi Haim Yosef Gottlieb (1790-1867) studied in the Chatam Sofer’s yeshiva and stayed close with him his entire life, and he would bless “in the merit of Mori v’Rabi HaChatam Sofer”. His muvhak rabbi in the torah of the Baal Shem Tov was the Rahak Rabbi Yitzhak Isaac of Koliv, and after his death he adhered to Rabbi Naftali of Rofshitz. After the latter’s death he became one of the greatest students of the Rahak Haim of Sanz and was considered one of the “Familia shel Ma’alah” of the Zanser chassidim. On the orders of his rabbi the Divrei Haim he was appointed in 1841 rabbi of Stropkov, where he remained until his death. His grave was a pilgrimage site for multitudes after guaranteeing before his death that “at any moment of trouble or suffering, come to pour out your ills to me at the holy spot”. See more about him in the work Rabbeinu HaKadosh of Zans, Part III: His Students, p. 78.