Auction 47
Lot 104:
1. Shut HaRashbid, first section, “systems of questions and answers on inyanim of Shas Orech Hayyim and Yoreh Deah”, by the gaon Rabbi Shabtai ben Yitzhak David Segel, Av Beit Din of Bohosh. Published by his grandson and successor, Rabbi Ben Zion Roller. First edition—Cluj/Klausenberg, 1926. 125 leaves. Binding detached, blank first page detached together with the title page, a few moth holes, no spine, overall good condition.
The title page has side-by-side stamps, one of which is from the author, Rabbi Shabtai Segel (after his death?), the second is his grandson who published the work, Rabbi Ben Zion Roller, who lived for 2.5 years with his grandfather in order to edit the work and publish a correct edition of it. A number of handwritten corrections in the body of the work.
Rabbi Shabtai Segel (died 1903) was the son of Rabbi Yitzhak David, born in Galicia. In his youth he lived in Iasi, served in the rabbinate of Miheilan, Solitza, Radovitz. Afterward he served as rabbi in Bohosh (an important Chassidic city in Romania) for forty years. His work, Shut HaRashbid, was thus named because it uses the first letters of his and his father’s name: Shabtai Yitzhak David. See Encyclopedia of Romanian Jewry, p. 664.
Rabbi Ben Zion Roller (1883-1950) was the son of Rabbi Yitzhak Isaac Yehuda Leib. When he was 19 he received smicha and served as rabbi in Bohosh. In 1908 he founded a yeshiva there named “Ohr Chadash L’Bnei Zion”, and the Romanian Ministry of Education recognized it. At the yeshiva his students learned secular studies as well, he was nevertheless a rabbinical leader of the faction fighting modernization of the religion, and he received the blessings of the Admorim of Bohosh, Pakshan, Shtefanesht, and more. He was a representative in all of the Zionist Congresses and travelled across the country to spread the Zionist idea. In 1926 he published his grandfather’s work. See Encyclopedia of Romanian Jewry, p. 768.
2. Shut Beer Haim Mordechai, second section, by the gaon who specialized in freeing agunot, Rabbi Haim Mordechai Roller, Av Beit Din of Targo-Niemitz, the author of the “Beer Haim Mordechai” pamphlet for heterim for agunot. In this work he corresponds with gedolim of his generation. First edition, Klausenberg, 1932. [2], 126 leaves. Paper a little brittle.
Bound with “Hilchot Mikva’ot with Chiddushim of the Raza”, by Rabbi Zeev Wolf HaLevi, Av Beit Din of Semartin. At the end are chiddushei Torah by the gaon Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried on the sugiya of ketzitza. First edition, Ungvar 1868. 77 [1] leaves in the original—this copy has 76 leaves. Approbations from the gaon Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried, author of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, and other rabbis.
Moth holes, mainly in the margins, binding detached, overall good condition.
The blank first page of both volumes has the stamp: “Rabbi Yosef Zvi Katz, from the Jewish community of Bucharest” – Rabbi Yosef Hirsch Zvi Katz (died in 1943?) was the son of Rabbi Shlomo, a chazan and shochet. He was rabbi in Bucharest for 30 years and a member of the local rabbinical council. He held a beit midrash in his home, which became known as “Beit Midrash Katz”. He was murdered in the Shoah. See Encyclopedia of Romanian Jewry, p. 555).
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