Sefer ‘Chovat HaTalmidim’, articles of mussar and guidance in Avodat Hashem according to Chassidut, authored by the Holy Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapiro, Admor of Piaseczno. First edition (New condition). Warsaw 1932.
This is a rare first edition of the sefer that survived the War and stayed in an exceptional good condition. Two title pages.
Rabbi Kalonymus kalman Shapiro of Piaseczno (1889-1934), from great illustrious scholars of Poland in the generation between the two World Wars. Born to his father Rabbi Elimelech of Grodzisk, from descendants of the Maggid of Koznets and Rabbi Elimelech of Lizensk, married at a young age with the daughter of the Holy Rebbe Yerachmiel Moshe of Kozhnitz. After the passing of his father-in-law, when he was still very young – about 20 years, he started serving as Admor of Piaseczno.
After WWI, with the development of many various different youth movements of that enchanted the young and innocent and badly ruined the Jewish education, the Piaseczno Rebbe began to engage in the education and encouraging the hearts of the young Jews to Torah. His ideas and perceptions of this world were new and revolutionary for his time, but he succeeded a lot in this field. In 1923 he established in Warsaw the Yeshivat Daas Moshe where he toiled most of the year and in the summer days and High Holy Holidays he returned to Piaseczno.
With the outbreak of War he remained with his comunity in Warsaw and refused all attempts for his escape from the Germans. In the Ghetto he worked tirelessly to strengthen the hearts of the Jews. Likewise he set up a network of soup kitchens and charity organizations. He was murdered in the year 1934 in the Birkenau Concentration Camp. His lectures he gave during the stormy days to strengthen the Jews in the Ghetto were found after the Holocaust and printed in the sefer ‘Aish Kodesh’.
20 cm. [3], 4 – 85 pages.
Excellent – very good condition. Like new.
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