Auction 57
Lot 230:
Sefer Bigdei Srad, halachot of treifus for animals and birds, by the gaon Rabbi David Shlomo Eibeschitz, author of the Arvei Nahal on the Torah. With the Miluim by Rabbi Shraga Feivush Segal Frankel. The title page does not list the date of printing but based on the date in the approbation by Rabbi Gedalya Tiktin we can see that it was printed in 1852. First edition: 68, [2] pages. Stefanski Chassidus 76.
Sefer Pri Hadar on halachot of ritual slaughter, bedikot, and more, by Rabbi Avigdor Mordechai Katz, son of Rabbi Avraham Ezra, Av Beit Din of Ostrin, author of the Korban Todah, Invei HaGefen and Anafei HaGefen and more. First edition, Vilna 1867. [2], 136 leaves.
New binding, stains and signs of use, lone worming holes, overall good condition.
The title pages have stamps documenting that this copy belonged to the gaon Rabbi Chaim Berlin. The rear binding leaf has a note, a few handwritten lines, with marei mekomot for halachic matters, by Rabbi Berlin.
Rabbi Haim Berlin of Volozhin was the son of the Natziv. He served as Chief Rabbi of Moscow, and as the most famous Rosh Yeshiva in the world, of the Volozhin yeshiva (known as the Mother of Yeshivot). In 1906 he moved to Jerusalem, and after the death of Rabbi Shmuel of Salant he became leader of the Ashkenazi Eida in Jerusalem, even though he refused the official position.
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