Auction 6
Lot 185:
“Toldot Yaakov” a long approach to the Masechet Beitza and emendations to the pages, by HaRav Yaakov Castro (Hamaharikesh), printed by Israel B”ak Jerusalem 1865, at the start of the book the publisher writes “this is a book of a great man…for close to three hundred years his seeing eye has not been burnt.” First and only edition, (4) 96 pages, 21cm. Hamaharikesh was from the known rabbis of Egypt and compiled the book “Erekh Lehem” and the questions and answers of “Ohalei Ya’akov,” when he was in Tzfat he stayed with the master of Bait Yosef, negotiated in halakha with the greats of the generation, and HaHida writes for the great rabbis that he saw “the methods of the student overwhelming the rabbis.” Recently a handwritten letter of his was released with his method of the masechet Baba Kama. Excellent condition, worn original binding with a strengthening of the spine at the title page, signed on the title page “Meir Katz Satmar”
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