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the Maggid of Slonim, Bialystok 1816 FIRST EDITIONS. THE RABBI YAAKOV YITZCHAK RUDERMAN COPY - EDEL, YEHUDAH LEIB. Mei Naftoach [On Maimonides’s Introduction To Seder Taharoth].  BOUND WITH: Mayim Tehorim [Commentary To Mishnah Seder Taharoth]. FIRST EDITIONS. THE RABBI YAAKOV YITZCHAK RUDERMAN COPY, with his signature on recto and verso of front fly leaf, first leaf, f. 29a, and title of second work. Previous owners’ marks, stained and worn, opening title creased. Contemporary boards, worn. Folio. Vinograd, Bialystok 16 and 17 (JNUL copy incomplete). Bialystok: Aaron Halevi Horowitz 1816-17 Two scarce works on a difficult, esoteric topic. The author, known as the Maggid of Slonim, eulogized the Vilna Gaon in his homiletic work Afikei Yehudah.