Set of Mikraot Gedolot Chumashim – Warsaw, 1860 – Copies of Rebbe Yehudale of Dzikov

Set of Mikraot Gedolot Chumashim – Warsaw, 1860 – Copies of Rebbe Yehudale of Dzikov

Five Book of the Torah, Mikraot Gedolot, with thirty-two commentaries. Warsaw: Yoel Lebensohn, 1860. Set in five volumes. Approbations of rabbis and rebbes, including Rebbe Yeshayah Muszkat of Praga, Rebbe Yaakov David of Vurka, the Imrei Binah of Kalisz, the Netziv of Volozhin, and others.
Copies of Rebbe Yehudah Hager-Horowitz of Dzikov. Handwritten inscriptions on endpapers of some volumes, with his signature (on the endpaper of the Shemot volume): "Y. Horowitz". All of the volumes contain several glosses in his handwriting.

Rebbe Yehudah Horowitz-Hager of Dzikov (1905-1989, Encyclopedia LaChassidut II, pp. 3-4), son of Rebbe Alter Yechezkel Eliyahu of Dzikov, from the Ropshitz dynasty. He was raised in Grosswardein (Oradea) by his maternal grandfather Rebbe Yisrael Hager of Vizhnitz, the Ahavat Yisrael, and married the daughter of his uncle Rebbe Chaim Meir Hager of Vizhnitz (adopting his surname, Hager). In 1936-1944, he served as dayan and posek in Klausenburg. After the Holocaust, he immigrated to Eretz Israel and settled in Jerusalem, where he served as lecturer in the Beit Yosef Tzvi (Dushinsky) yeshiva, where he edified many disciples. He was an intimate associate of the Chazon Ish.

He refused to lead a court, yet many Chassidim and admirers gathered around him. Near the end of his life, he lived in London, where he served as rebbe. He was known for his tremendous diligence, holiness, and tremendous devotion in his worship of God. He exerted himself his entire life in Torah study. Most of his novellae on Halachah and Aggadah were recorded with great concision in the margins of the books in his large library. Some of these novellae were published in the Gilyonei Mahari series.

5 volumes. Approx. 31 cm. Bereshit: [6], 134, [20] leaves. Shemot: 136, 8; 8, [1] leaves (missing one unnumbered leaf with list of Torah readings and Haftarah for Parashat Shekalim, which does not appear in all copies). Vayikra: [2], 87; 20 leaves. Bamidbar: 96; 8, 13-15 leaves (missing 4 leaves: 9-12 from the second sequence). Devarim: [2], 4-98; 24 leaves (leaves 5-8 of the first sequence are bound after leaf 12). Overall fair condition. Signs of extensive use. Stains, heavy wear and tears, including several open tears. Several leaves detached. Original leather bindings, worn and damaged (light worming to one binding). Placed in elegant card slipcase.