Mekor Habrachot by Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Goldberg, Berlin [1905], on the protective page an Handwritten inscription and owner's stamp of the genius Rabbi Yitzchak [Itzla] Blazer.
The genius of Rabbi Yitzchak Blazer [1837-1907] also known as R. Itzla Petersburger, one of the mussar movement's fathers, and one of the great disciples of Rabbi Yisrael of Salant and his followers. Even when he was 14 years old, he wrote a pamphlet on the Baba Kama tractate. At the age of 15, he moved to Kovno and began studying in Rabbi Yisrael Salanter's seminary. After a while, he was admitted to the rabbinate of Petersburg and waged a boycott war against the Hasscoleh in the city. Rabbi Itzala later devoted himself to straddling musser in the establishment of yeshivot of the Moral Movement through his friend Rabbi Yosef Yosel Horowitz - the 'Saba from Novhardock'. He was customary to come regularly to the Yeshivot of - Kelem, Salbodka, and Novhardock, and to guide their students. In 1904, Rabbi Yitzhak immigrated to Israel and settled in Jerusalem, where he met with Rabbi Naftali Amsterdam, and Rabbi Zvi Levitan, and lived in the Stroys courtyard in the Musrara neighborhood. Rabbi Yitzchak died in Jerusalem on the 11th of Av 1907.
Loose spine, first leaves detached. Good condition.
