Auction 10
Lot 340:
Masechet Brachot, Talmud Bavli, from page 37. Mishnayot Zra’im, Amsterdam, 1646. Masechet Hagigah, Mo’ed Katan, Ta’anit, from the Talmud Bavli, with Rashi’s commentary and Tosafot and Psakei Tosafot and Rabbeinu Asher and commentary of the Rambam. Amsterdam 1645. With signatures and glosses by Rabbi Moshe Segel Brands. And signatures by his sons Rabbi Betzalel and Rabbi Yaakov, and his student Rabbi Aharon Yafeh Margaliot of Eisenstaat, and signature of “Shimon ben HaRav….”. The Gaon Rabbi Moshe Segel Brands, a sage of his generation, also known as Rabbi Moshe Kharif (1680 approximately – 1767), son of the Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Brands, Av Beit Din of Gantza, and a descendent of the Maharal of Prague. In his adolescence he studied with the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Broda, who he respected greatly and even tended to call “Khaluka d’Rabanan” before students and in his presence. After his marriage to the daughter of Rabbi Gavriel Frankel, founder of the Klauz in Furth [after the name that he used to sign: Kharag—groom Rabbi Gershon], he started dedicatedly teaching Torah in 1706 to students of the Klauz (the Furth yeshiva). In 1713 he started to serve as Av Beit Din of Steinach and Ansbach. In 1717 he moved to serve as Rav of the Bumesla community, and in 1733 he was appointed to the rabbinate of Gantza (Meinz), where he served for 34 years. Know as a sage of his generation (the generation of the Pnei Yehoshua and Rabbi Yehonatan Ivshitz), an incredible Gaon, and his knowledge was not limited to the Kabbalah. He raised many students who then served in the rabbinate and in teaching. Known for his wonderful passion, because of which he was nicknamed Rabbi Moshe Kharif, the name that is even on his headstone. Fragments of his chiddushim were printed in the book “Chiddushim of Rabbi Moshe Kharif” by Machon Jerusalem, Jerusalem 1987, there you can read an introduction to his history. All bound together in a new binding, a little defective, pages defective with missing text, mainly in Masechet Brachot, moth marks (lots), stains, generally bad to ok condition.
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