Auction 41

Lot 193:

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Foundational work: Tosafot Rosh, first edition, Warsaw 1927. Copy owned by Rabbi Meir Shapira of Lublin

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Start price: $160

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On Masechet Gittin, first edition of this masechet “valuable, brought to light after being in geniza, left until now in a manuscript in the Library of Maran Admor shlita of Gur [the Imrei Emet], accompanied by the Chiddushim of the Rambam on Gittin, what had never been printed of his chiddushim before…”. Title page has a number of stamps of Rabbi Meir Shapira when he was Rabbi of Pietrekov, and stamps of the Yeshivat Chochmei Lublin.

Leaf 5, page 2 has a small note, probably handwritten by Maharam Shapira!
Stefanski Sifrei Yesod 57. 29 leaves 30cm. Good condition. Old, detached binding.

Rabbi Yehuda Meir Shapira (Maharam Shapira, 1887-1934) was a leader of Polish Jewry and Agudas Yisrael before the Shoah, founder and leader of Chochmei Lublin yeshiva, and founder of the Daf Yomi movement.

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