Toras Habayis by the Rashb’a. – Copy owned by the holy sage Rabbi Yeshaya Shor of Yassi, author of Kelil Tiferet
Toras Habayis Ha’aroch by the Rashba, with annotations ‘Bedek Habayis’ and ‘Mishmeres Habayis’. Vienna 1811.
On the title page is written in a beautiful handwriting: "…this book Toras HaBayis Ha’aroch by the Rashb’a Z’al,
belongs to the Rabbi the Great Genius, the sharp and erudite, Holy pious glory of the generation, the crown of time, the lamp of Israel.. Rabbi of all exiles, a holy man of God,
Yeshaya rabbi if Chotin and environs…” – [
referring to Rabbi Yeshaya Shor later rabbo of Yassi]
On the inner cover page another signature .. Zalman.. on p. 33 a comment [by an unidentified author]
The holy Gaon Rabbi Yeshayahu Shor of Yassi (1779 – 1879), an exalted sage, one of the greats of his generation in both revealed and hidden Torah, the distinguished student of Rabbi Mordechai of Kremenitz and after his death in 1820 he became the student of the ‘Ohev Yisroel’ of Apta. In his youth he was appointed Rabbi of the city of Horodenka on the recommendation of the ‘Eshel Avraham’ of Butshatch, later he served as the Rabbi of the city of Chotin, Zabarezh and more, and from the year of 1857 he led the community in Yassi, where about 30,000 Jews lived. In the year 1865, after various and unusual poultry were brought to Europe, and they were some who wanted to eat them, he published a work ‘Kanfei Nesher’ showing they were not kosher, and also fought fiercely against various reformers of the times. He died on Shabbat evening 26 Adar. It was learned from the Rabbi Ch. Of Slafkowitz that that night he fell asleep in his study of the Talmud, and suddenly stopped and said, "Ah, here I saw a bed being carried in heaven and being proclaimed that in this bed Rabbi Yeshaya Shor is being transferred from Yassi to the Holy Land..”. From his books and sermons ‘Kelil Tiferes’ and ‘Chazon Yeshayahu’. (See also in ‘Hillula Kadisha’ by R. M. Schiff).
"..as his pure name became famous, he was requested in the big towns and he reigned in the city of Chotin Russia… and the sun of that sage shined upon the world and the Chasidim huddled in his shadow increased…. we heard about the wonders he performed in the midst of the land…” (Rabbi Hager Rabbi of Zabletov in his introduction to the ‘Chazon Yeshayahu’).
