Auction 75
Lot 146:
Sefer Pnei Yehoshua, the famed work on the Sugyot of the Shas by the Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Yehoshua Folk Av Beit Din of the important communities: Lviv, Metz, Berlin and Frankfurt am Main. Known as the Pnei Yehoshua after this work. Section III and IV on the tractates of Ketubot, Gittin and Kiddushin. Printed in Warsaw, 1876-1877 (stereotype printing of Warsaw 1874). Separate title page for each section. Late binding with blemishes to spine. Perforations and tears to the first title page. Tears and some taping. Stains and minor blemishes. Good overall condition.
Impressive pedigree – golden chain
This book was owned by the royal family of Oihel-Siget (listed chronologically):
1. On the back flyleaf, two ownership notations in Hebrew and a foreign language (possibly, the foreign notation is his handwritten signature) indicating this copy was owned by the Admor the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Yosef Teitelbaum of Oheil, the son of Rabbeinu the Yitav Lev [see below].
2. On the first title page, an ownership notation and signature by his son Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Teitelbaum, the son-in-law and in-law of the Admorim of Bobov [see below]: "קניתי מהוני לכבוד צורי וקוני הק’ חיים יעקב טייטלבוים פון באבוב… לד’ הארץ ומלואה הק’ חיים יעקב טייטלבוים".
3. On the first title page, an ownership notation of Rabbi Yechezkel Sheraga Teitelbaum – the son of the above Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Teitelbaum. Succeeded his father as Rav of Limanov. Survived the Holocaust and lived in the USA. In his old age immigrated to Israel (Meorei Galicia, pp. 97-98).
4. On the first and second title pages, ownership notations and handwritten signatures: "צבי הירש מייזליש" – "שייך להרב המובהק מוה"ר צבי הירש מייזליש שליט"א". His stamp with the addition "לימאנאב" – Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Meislis, the above Rabbi Chaim Yaakov’s son-in-law [see below].
5. An additional notation on the first title page: "קניתי מהוני לכבוד צורי וקוני הק’ ארי’ טייטלבוים" – apparently, Rabbi Aryeh Leibush, the son of Rabbi Yerucham Teitelbaum who was the son-in-law of Rabbi Baruch Halberstam of Grolitz. Rabbi Aryeh was the in-law of Rabbi Moshe Aeyeh Freund, the Gaon Av Beit Din of haEidah HaChareidit. Passed away in 1921 (Meorei Gakicia, section III).
6. On the first title page, a stamp and notation: "שלמה זלמן סאמעט העומד לשרת בקודש" – Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Samet, the loyal Gabai of the Yitav Lev of Siget.
Additional signatures on the back flyleaf with the name "שאול מרדכי זלמן מק"ק אוהעל פה ווייטצען" and additional notations – not studied.
Several handwritten glosses – we do not know by whom of the owners of this copy.
Rabbi Moshe Yosef Teitelbaum of Oheil (1845-1897) the fourth son of the Gaon the Yitav Lev of Siget and son-in-law of Rabbi David of Kashanov, the son of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz. Was the Rav of Zborov, Stropkov and Oihel, succeeding his grandfather the Yismach Moshe.
Was a famed Darshan who travelled throughout Hungary to deliver his sermons. He left a handwritten volume of his Chidushim and sermons titled Milei Demeitav on the Torah and the Shas; the section on the Torah, however, was lost in the Holocaust.
Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Teitelbaum Av Beit Din of Limanov, the third son of the above Gaon Rabbi Moshe Yosef Teitelbaum and the son-in-law of the Gaon Rabbi Shlomo of Bobov the first.
Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Meislis (1902-1974) the son-in-law of the above Rabbi Chaim Yaakov. Was Rav in Galicia and Hungary and Rav in the DP camps after the Holocaust and later in Chicago and Newmarket. Author of Shut Mekadshei Hashem about the Holocaust and additional books. Was famed as the Rav of Vietzen, after which he was known as the Vietzener Rov.
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