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SHAALOS U’TSHUVOS MAYIM CHAIM – RABBI CHAIM HA’COHEN RAPAPORT - ZHITOMIR 5617 –   CONTAINS HALACHIC QUESTION FROM THE BAAL SHEM TOV – RABBINIC OWNERSHIP STAMPS . Responsa 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 5518 (1858). Ownership stamps of Rabbi Aba Leib Shapira (b. 1862), and of his son-in-law Rabbi Baruch Rabinowitz (b. 1840). Rabbi Aba Leib Shapira, son of Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapira. Rabbi of Yezna, Shershow andVitebsk. Rabbi Baruch Rabinowitz, son of Rabbi Yehoshua Rabbinowitz. Rabbi of Zhurawitz, Vitebsk, and from 1918 in Chicago. 42, 76 pp. 21x35.5 cm. Very good condition, wide margins, new binding. Stefanski 341