Auction 57
Lot 157:
Shut Parshat Mordechai, on the four sections of the Shulchan Aruch, by Rabbi Mordechai Bennett, who was Av Beit Din of Nicklasburg…organized by his grandson Avraham Yitzhak Glick, Avdak of Tolshova. First edition, Maramures-Sighet 1888. [1], 133, [1] leaves. At the end are subscriber names with many gedolim from the period. Missing the “Table of Contents”. A few worming holes and stains. Light tears to the margins of a small number of pages. Detached binding, no spine, overall good condition.
The book has a number of stamps, some very faded, from the gaon HaAderet, when he was still Chief Rabbi of Mir (Lithuania): “Eliyahu David ben HaGaon Rabbi Binyamin Rabinowitz of Mir”. In the center is the acronym of his name in Cyrillic letters.
Rabbi Eliyahu David Rabinowitz Teumim (1845-1905) was the rabbi of Ponevezh and Mir (Lithuania) and late in late was asked by Rabbi Shmuel Salant to serve as Rabbi of Jerusalem. He was the father-in-law of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaKohen Kook, and for dozens of years he would wear small tefillin all day. He wrote more than 120 books, only two of which were printed during his lifetime. The others have been brought to late in the recent years.
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