The three volumes of Talmud Bavli from the unfinished Slavuta edition, 1835-36.
Talmud Bavli, I-III: Tractates Brachos, Shabbos, and Eiruvin. Rabbi Shmuel Avraham Shapiro’s press, Slavuta 1835-36. Edition that was never completed due to a libel against the printers.
✵ Tractate Berachos, 1835: Per the National Library catalog the original had [5], 124, 13 pp. but this exemplar is incomplete. Missing: [4], 2-5, 7-8, 18. Title page printed in black and red ink.
additional page at the end with Hagahos HaGR”A on tractate Berachos and on Mishnayos Seder Zera’im.
✵ Bound together with: Mishnayos Seder Zera’im with commentaries. Rabbi Shmuel Avraham Shapiro’s press, Slavuta, 1835.
67 pp. last page missing.
✵ Tractate Shabbos, 1836: [2], 2-195, 43, 88 pp. Missing [2] pgs. At the beginning (apparently a pre-title page and additional page of approbations). Title page in red and black ink. Pastings on last two pages. Ownership notation at the beginning “from the books of Reuven Shacharowitz, Kovno”.
✵ Tractate Eiruvin, 1836: [3], 132, 17 pp. Missing at the end of the volume: 2, 91-130 pp. Title page in red and black ink. Notations and signatures on title page and some margins.
Rabbi Shmuel Avraham Abba of Slavuta (1784-1864) – disciple of Reb Zusha of Anipoli and Rabbi Boruch of Mezhbizh. Rabbi Moshe Shapiro, his father, was the son of the holy Rebbe, Rabbi Pinchas of Koritz – one of the foremost disciples of Maran, Light of the World, the holy Ba’al Shem Tov. He served as Rabbi of Slavuta and founded the printing press there. Rabbi Shmuel Avraham, together with his brother Rabbi Pinchas, ran the famous Slavuta press. During the production of this edition, in 1836, due to a libelous charge, the brothers were arrested and sentenced to cruel torture by whipping and then exile to Siberia. After 17 years, in 1856, the brothers were released from prison, and Rabbi Shmuel Avraham took on the mantle of Admor.
Incomplete exemplar. Stains. Moth holes. A few short tears and small defects. Fair-good condition.
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