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Zohar Ruth, known as Har Adonai, written in ancient script by the Chassid Rabbi Aharon...

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Zohar Ruth, known as Har Adonai, written in ancient script by the Chassid Rabbi Aharon Yaakov Katz of Stari. 1867.

Zohar Ruth, published in Amsterdam in 1712 and titled Har Adonai, which is Zohar on Megilas Ruth attributed to the great Tana Rashbi.

It was written that ‘anyone who says it on Leil Shavu’os and Leil Hoshana Rabba is promised that he is a member of the world to come’. It was discovered by the great Gaon Rabbi Yechiel Michl Av Beis Din of Haradonai who titled the Sefer in the name of the town.

The writer of this manuscript could not find the printed composition and therefore copied it in fine script with special decorations on the ornate title page and on the last page as a sort of a colophon. It should be noted that the second edition of the Sefer was published in 1785, in Shklow, and until the year this manuscript was written, six editions were published, the last one in Lvov, 1851. Thus, the copyist writes: This Zohar Ruth was printed in Lvov for the first time [!] in the year of Yiras Hashem … and I wished to purcahse it and asked several booksellers about this Sefer and they told me they had never seen it. Therefore I wrote it to be remembered … Aharon Yaakov Katz of Stari Iyar 1867′.

See the comprehensive composition Aggados Shmuel authored by Rabbi Moshe Hillel, who proves that the author of this Zohar Ruth was Shmuel ben Rabbi Moshe Dalugatsh of Haradonai, who forged many compositions.

The name of the copyist, Rabbi Aharon Yaakov Katz of Stari, appears in the list of subscribers of Sefer Ravid Hazahav.

[1] handwritten leaves. Including 2 ornate leaves. 17.5X14 cm. partly dismantled. Crumbling leaves. Not bound. Fair condition.

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