Obj. ID: 37948
Jewish printed books  Pat ha-Shulchan by Yisrael ben Shmuel me-Shklov, Safed, 1836

This text was prepared by William Gross:

Pe'at HaShulchan, mitzvoth hatluyot ba'aretz (laws pertaining to Eretz Israel). By Rabbi Yisrael of Shklow, disciple of the Vilna Gaon. Safed, 1836. First edition. Printed by Yisrael Bak. Light-colored, high-quality paper. One of the last books printed in Safed before the 1837 earthquake (thereafter the author and the printer relocated to Jerusalem after losing most of their family and property in the quake).
One of 6 (7?) books produced by Israel Bak’s Hebrew press in Safed, which he established in 1832.
A Chassidic disciple, Israel Bak established his first printing press in Berditchev, Ukraine, a central locus within the Chassidic world. In 1832 he made Aliyah to the Land of Israel and renewed the "holy work of printing" in Safed. His Hebrew press was the first to operate in Safed in some 245 years. Most of the works he printed there were of a popular, utilitarian nature: Siddur, Tehillim, etc., including this volume on the agricultural laws of Eretz Israel (based on Maimonides and the rulings of the Vilna Ga’on).
In the printer’s introduction to this volume, Bak describes the massacres by the Druze in the province of the Galil, one of the destructive events that led to Bak’s departure from Safed in 1841, and his eventual establishment of Jerusalem’s first Hebrew press. The printer's device on the title page also appears on his prints from Berditchev.
[5], 2-109, [1] leaves.