Bidspirit auction | Pirke Avot Printed in Germany

Pirke Avot Printed in Germany in memory of Holocaust victims. - Pirke Avot Printed in Germany in memory of Holocaust victims. with the kabbalistic and hasidic commentary of R. Isaac Judah Jehiel Safrin (1806–1874), hasidic leader. R. Safrin was the son of R. Alexander Sender (d. 1818), author of Zikhron Devarim (1871), who served as rabbi in Zhidachov, Zhuravno, and Komarno, and founded the Komarno branch of the Zhidachov dynasty. R. Isaac Safrin made his living at various times as a stonecutter and bookkeeper, renting a tavern in a village and collecting tolls. His teachers in Hasidism were his father, his uncle R. Moses of Sambor, his father-in-law R. Abraham Mordecai of Pinczow, and R. Isaac Eizik of Zhidachov.