Auction 41
Lot 159:
1. Psalms with the Radak’s commentary, at the end are maamadot with an additional title page. Printed in Warsaw 1877. Title page as printed in Amsterdam 1863. [4], 177, 43 leaves. At the beginning is a history of the Radak. Many signs of use, moth holes, and stains.
2. Psalms with the Metzudot, printed in Vilna 1879. 144, [8] leaves. Last pages are torn and partially missing.
3. Siddur Tefillat Yisrael, Nusach Ashkenaz, with the commentary Derech HaHaim and Iyun Tefillah, printed in Warsaw 1895. 300 leaves. Binding detached, fragile paper, pages detached and many signs of use. Various conditions, mostly fair to good.
Each copy has an important note of ownership: “Moshe Finkel” and often the additional “of Chelm.” Rabbi Moshe Finkel of Chelm (1883-1926) was the son of Rabbi Natan Zvi Finkel (the Saba of Slobodka), and son-in-law of Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Epstein the Rosh Yeshiva of the Slobodka yeshiva. He was a Ram at the Slobodka yeshiva and Hevron. He studied at Mir under Rabbi Eliezer Gordon and Rabbi Eliyahu Baruch Kamay, and in Brisk under Rabbi Haim Soloveitchik. He travelled to Radin for a time to the Chafetz Haim’s yeshiva. The Ohr Sameach of Dvinsk said of him that he was the Ketzot HaChoshen of the next generation.
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