Sefer Hin Tzedek and Tikkun Hamidos, by Rabbi Avraham Lichtenstein. Vilna, 1799. First edition. Personal exemplar of the tzaddik Rabbi Pinchas of Kantakuzovka, of the Linitz lineage.
Sefer Hin Tzedek VeTikkun Hamidos, commentary on the Rambam’s “Eight Chapters” (with the text of §1-5) by Rabbi Avraham, son of Rabbi Eliezer Lipman Lichtenstein, Moreh Tzededk of Lida. Yozepfot Mirsky press, Vilna, 1799. First edition. One of the first Jewish Seforim to be printed in Vilna. Noble exemplar.
With ownership stamps of the holy Rabbi Pinchas Rabinowitz of Kantakuzovka.
The print year, 1799, is the year the first Hebrew press was established in Vilna, and it is possible that this was the first item printed there. Due to the high printing costs, only part I, on the first 5 chapters of the Rambam’s “Eight Chapters” was printed.
Regarding this Sefer, and regarding the events surrounding the transfer of the printing presses from the royal Print in Horadna to the Bishop’s press in Vilna, see Ohel Rachel vol. V, by Chaim Liberman, NY, 1981, pp. 416-420.
The Admor Rabbi Pinchas Rabinowitz of Kantakuzovka (1861-1922) the son of the holy Rebbe, Rabbi Yitzchak Yoel of Linitz, son of the holy Rabbi Gedalya Aharon of Linitz; his mother was the daughter of the holy Rebbe, Rabbi Meshulam Zusia of Zhinkov, son of the holy Rabbi Yitzchak Meir of Zhinkov. Married the Rebbetzin, the daughter of the holy Rebbe, Rabbi Mordechai Dober Schneerson of Tomshpol, son of the holy Rabbi Menachem Nochum Schneerson of NIezhin, son of Rabbi Dober Schneerson, the Mitteler Rebbe of Lubavitch. From his descendants came famous Tzaddikim: the holy Rebbe, Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael of Charson – the first Rebbe in the new Yishuv in Tel Aviv, the holy Rabbi Shmuel Aba of Zoliov, the holy Rabbi Menachem Nochum of Kantakuzovka, and the holy rabbi Moshe of Stolin, son of the holy Rebbe, Rav Yisrael, the Yanuka of Stolin (‘der Frankfurter’).
5, 7-18, [1] pp. 19cm. renewed binding. Stains and moth holes. Damage and pasting on corner of last page. Fair-good condition.
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