Auction 16
Lot 318:
Four large pages with notes in the margins, with chiddushim, including an interesting answer to a situation that had taken place: an 11-year-old boy married a woman, seemingly the same age as him (it was common in those days), and on her way to meet her husband, she had yichud with a stranger. After about two months she met her husband, and after 7 months she gave birth, and it was unknown whether that was the son of her husband who was born prematurely or the other man and it was a full-term baby. In this difficult answer, in which 3 souls are bound up in it (can the couple remain married, and the question of the child’s mamzer status), his famous genius comes to the fore, his mastery of all aspects of Torah. The Maharil of Yanovitz was in regular correspondence with his nephew, and dozens of his responses appear in the Shot of the Tzemach Tzedek. The Maharil of Yanovitz lived from 1749/50-1826, was the brother and right-hand man of the Ba’al HaTanya, and the main editor of the Ba’al HaTanya. He served as rabbi of Yanovitz (Janavicy). Published the book She’erit Yehuda. The Tzemach Tzedek appreciated his psika and geonut. Item: [1] sheet of paper folded into four pages, 43x20cm for each (40×43 total). Signs of folding, stains from time, tears, light professional repairs. Generally ok to good condition. Accompanied by an expert approval of the identity of the manuscript. By Rav Eliyahu Matosov, head of the Otzer Chassidim system and the Chabad library at 770.
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