Or LeArba’ah Assar, Derashos for Passover, by Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov Reines. Piotrkow, 1913. Single edition. Pedigreed copy.
Sefer Ot LeArba’ah Assar, with Derashos for Passover, by Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov Reines Av Beis Din of Lida. Shlomo Belchotovsky Press, Piotrkow, 1913. With a handwritten dedication by Rabbi Avraham Pesach Hermes the Rav of Atlanta.
108 leaves, 22 cm. With a handwritten dedication by Rabbi Avraham Pesach Hermes the Rav of Atlanta to the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Shapiro, [1922].
The Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Reines (1839-1915), ), one of the greatest rabbis of Lithuania. In his youth studied at the Volozhin Yeshiva were he became renowned as an Iluy, a great scholar and most knowledgeable. At a young age, he married the daughter of Rabbi Yosef Reisin Rosh A Beis Din of Telz and Slonim. Served as Rav in various communities (Lida, Shvintzian and Manchester, England to which he travelled after receiving a promise to fund the printing of his great Sefer – a commentary on the entire Shulcha Aruch. Yet he soon returned to Lithuania since he saw that his hands were tied and he could do nothing to strengthen religion. This decision led to his great enterprise on the Shulchan Aruch to come to nothing). Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak was one of the founders of HaMizrachi.
Some see Rabbi Reines’ Derashos as a turning point in the history of Darshanus. His Sifrei Derashos introduced a new style of Derashos, being of deep content and poetic language. Rabbi Reines began his Derashos with a logical explanation of a familiar concept which was relevant to the theme of his Drush. This theme was usually related to the character of the Jewish people and their resilience and the Jew’s wonderful power to give his life for observing the Torah and its Mitzvos. Soon, additional Darshanim were aspired by Reines’ Seforim, using understandable language, rich content and a moral in their Derashos.
Partly detached binding, good condition.
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