Mayim Chaim, Zhitomir 1857, Teshuva to the Ba'al ShemTov! Rabbinic Signature.

Mayim Chaim, Zhitomir 1857, Teshuva to the Ba'al ShemTov! Rabbinic Signature.

Shu"t Mayim Chaim, by Rabbi Chaim Hacuhen Rapaport, Zhitomir 1857. Contains Halachic Question from the Ba'al Shem Tov.

Response on four sections of the Shulchan Aruch by Rabbi Chaim Ha’Cohen Rapaport of Ostroh, Zhitomir 5617-8 (1857-8), only edition. Published at the renowned chassidic printing press of Rabbi Chanina Lipa Shapira and Rabbi Yehoshua Heshel Shapira. Each section has two title pages. Approbations by leading chassidic rabbis, Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heshel of Apt, Rabbi Mordechai

Twersky of Chernobil and Rabbi Shalom Rokach of Belz.

RESPONSUM NO. 27 CONSISTS OF THE ONLY PUBLISHED HALACHIC QUESTION FROM MEDZHIBOZH SIGNED BY THE BAAL SHEM TOV (His signature reads: ‘Yisrael Baal Shem of Tlust’) and addressed to Rabbi Meir Ha’Cohen Rapaport - Rabbi of Konstantinov, together with his response. This work also includes Torah commentaries by the author, Otzros Chaim, separate title page, Zhitomir 1858.

Has a total of 5 title pages.

On the first title page: ownership signature and stamp of R. "Yaakov David... Yudkowitz, rabbi of Grojec". R. Yaakov David Yudkowitz (died 1893), son of R. Yechiel Halpern of Kalisch, rabbi of Grojec, was previously rabbi in the communities of Serock and Zukowice. He left many manuscripts on all areas of Torah scholarship: responsa, commentary on the Torah and Prophets, commentary on the Talmud, Shulchan Aruch and Aggada. Only a small number of these manuscripts have been published in the Sefer Yad Haketana (Warsaw, 1909). His son, R. Alexander Dan Yudkowitz, was the author of Sefer Orach Mishor (Lodz, 1933).

Pages: 84, 151.

Size: 33 cm

Condition: Very good condition, old binding, tape on spine.