Auction 20
Lot 195:
With Sefer She’iltot by Rav Achay Gaon Maor HaGola, the first section (on Genesis and Exodus). With the commentary HaEmeke She’elah by Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, the Natziv of Volozhin. Two covers. Ram printing. On the second cover is a dedication: “given as charity by the Rahag Author of HaMeke She’elah…to the authority of the mashgichim.” | Rav Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (1817-1893), known as the Natziv of Volozhin, was a head of the Volozhin yeshiva and a sage of Eastern Europe in the 19th century. The Natziv was the eldest of his family, son of Rav Yaakov, who was a merchant and talmid chacham in Mir. He studied at the Mir yeshiva until 13.5, then Rabbi Yitzhak of Volozhin (head of the Volozhin yeshiva) took him as a son-in-law. When his father-in-law died in 1849, the Natziv’s brother-in-law, Rabbi Eliezer Yitzhak, became head of the yeshiva and the Natziv his deputy. Rav Eliezer died young, in 1853, and the Natziv became head of the yeshiva. His son, Rabbi Haim Berlin, served as Chief Rabbi of Moscow and for a short time as head of the Volozhin yeshiva. In 1906 he moved to Jersualem and after Rav Shmuel of Salant’s death was crowned the Rabbi of the Ashkenazi community of Jerusalem, despite refusing this title. | Stamps of ownership | 7, 123 pages. Generally good condition.
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