Shnei Luchot Habrit. Ostroh 1802, with an approbation by the Holy Rebbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. Copy of Rabbi ...

Shnei Luchot Habrit. Ostroh 1802, with an approbation by the Holy Rebbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. Copy of Rabbi Yehoshua Heshel Babad, Grandfather and Teacher of the Minchat Chinuch,

Sefer Shnei Luchot Habrit, Parts I-II, by Rabbi Yeshaya Halevi Horowitz. With Vavei HaAmudim by his son Rabbi Sheftel.

Ostroh, 1802. Shmuel Madpis Press.

Antique ownership inscription on the title page  "Belongs to Rabbi Moreinu Heshel Babad rabbi of Ternopil". 

Approbations by Rebbi Levi Yitzchak Av Beis Din of Berditchev, by Rabbi Bezalel Margolis Av Beis Din of Ostroh and by the Dayanim of Ostroh. 

[3], 2-86, 85-111, [2], 115-240; [1], 241-385; 36 leaves. 33.9 Cm

Overall Very Good condition, quality green-blue paper, some stains, minor marginal worming on first few pages, new exquisite  brown leather binding.

The famous Gaon Rabbi Yehoshua Heshel Babad (1754-1838), author of Sefer Yehoshua, grandfather and teacher of the author of Minchat Chinuch, descendent of the author of Pnei Yehoshua and of Rebbe Heshel of Cracow. He served in the Buzynove rabbinate succeeding the author of Pri Tevua until he was appointed as Rabbi of Ternopil in 1801, replacing his cousin Rabbi Shmuel Flankenfeld.

In 1828, he was chosen Rabbi of Lublin, but was pursued by influential residents of the city because of his Chassidic leanings, causing him to return to the Ternopil rabbinate. He was one of the Torah leaders of his times and taught many students; several Galicia sages were his disciples including his famous grandson, Rabbi Yosef Babad, author of the Minchat Chinuch who eventually also became Rabbi of Ternopil. He was renowned for his opposition to Yosef Perel, a leading maskil (member of the Enlightenment movement) in Galicia who lived the city. Some of his writings were printed in Sefer Yehoshua (Zhovkva, 1829), in which appear Torah thoughts exchanged with Torah sages of his time, his mechutan Rabbi Efraim Zalman Margaliot, author of Ketzot HaChoshen, the author of Chavot Da'at, etc.