Auction 48
Lot 128:
Old page handwritten by Rabbi Baruch Bendit Gvitin, a section from his book Kesef Nivchar on the Shas, with the title: “Shabbat HaGadol 1834”. A nice introduction on a complete page to his drosh for Shabbat HaGadol (this introduction does not appear in his book and was printed only much later in Zikarn Avot by his descendants). He ends by saying: “I will begin to give a drash on a sugiya which is not traditional”, and on the back of the page he begins on a drash about “Psachim 24, Amud Bet, Rabbi Abayu said all of the issurim in the Torah…”. Ends in the middle. This piece was printed in his book with slight changes.
12.5x20cm. Stains, overall good condition.
Rabbi Baruch Bendit Gvitin (1770-1842) was the son of Rabbi Zvi. He was a student in the yeshiva of the Marham Mintz in Brody. His first marriage was to the daughter of Rabbi Chanoch Henich Zilber, and he was appointed to the rabbinate by Rabbi Binyamin Zeev Wolff Boskowitz. He was appointed dayan in the beit din of Rabbi Meir Eisenstadt in Yarmouth. Later he was appointed to the rabbinate of Hedies, where he remained until his death 45 years later. He established a yeshiva there.
His famous work, Kesef Nivchar, was first published in Prague and covers 160 sugiyot of Shas and discusses the issues from all the sources from the Gemara through to the first Achronim. The work merited endorsements and praise from sages of his generation, including the Maharam Mintz, the Chatam Sofer and others, and became a foundational work in Hungarian yeshivot.
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