Auction 70
Lot 268:
Volume with Masechet Zevachim, Menachot and Bechorot of the Bavli Talmud – Printed by Yaakov Cohen Shlosberg, Vienna, 1870. This edition was approbated by the Divrei Chaim of Sanz (on verso of the title page of Masechet Yevamot – not in this section). The first title page with gilt and color lettering. A separate title page for each Masechet. 136, 148, 91 leaves. Binding with a blemished leather spine. The leather corners are missing. Stains and some aging damage. Good overall condition.
On the title page, two stamps in Hebrew and a foreign language indicating this was a copy of the holy Gaon and wonder worker Rabbi Sheraga Shmuel Schnitzler Av Beit Din of Tshaba, who received this book (which is part of a complete set) from his students, as embossed on the binding: "חברה תפארת בחורים דק"ק ב’ טשאבא תרח"ץ". In one place in the book, a gloss handwritten by Rabbeinu.
Rabbi Sheraga Shmuel Schnitzler Av Beit Din of Tshaba (1889-1980) the son of Rabbi Baruch Yehuda, a descendant of the holy Gaon Rabbi Shmelke of Nikolsburg. Was a Chassidic Rav of several villages and towns in Hungary. Was a famed wonder-worker. Was a disciple of Rabbi Menachem Brody of Kaliv and Rabbi Yehuda Greenwald of Satmar and a leading Chassid of the Maharid of Belz and his son the Admor Rabbi Aharon, He merited being buried near Rabbi Aharon’s gravesite. Was Rav of Tshaba (Békéscsaba, Hungary). After World War II, immigrated to Jerusalem, where by the advice of his holy Rav of Belz, he refused a position of Rav and where he passed away in 1980. After his passing, his Divrei Torah were published by his grandson and successor Rabbi Meshulam Shalom Weinberg in the book Birkot Shmuel. His father-in-law (by his second marriage) was the Admor Rabbi Eliezer Zussia of Skolen. His descendants are important Chareidi Admorim, Rabbis and dignitaries in Israel and abroad.
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