Auction 18
Lot 324:
By Rabbi Gedalyahu ben Yehiya, printed by Zisberg and Alter, Warsaw 1881. Bound together with Pitgamin Kadishin, Lublin 1889. | Stamp and listing of ownership by hand by Hezekiah Katnof (died in 1962). In 1933 he moved to Israel, and was put in Acre prison because of his “illegal” Aliyah. After 3 months he was released, and he set up residence in the Bukhari neighborhood of Jerusalem. He prayed in the Bava Tana synagogue, and he studied at Porat Yosef yeshiva. There he studied with the chacham Moshe Kohen Yitzhakof, Moshe Philosoph, and Yosef Haim Pinchasof, and Yehuda Ari Haimof. On erev Rosh Chodesh he would run a night of Torah learning and praying. During the Shovavim (the first 6 parshiyot of Shmot) he would visit places around Israel and do a tikkun HaBrit. During times of trouble he would do a Tikkun Zchut Tam, in which around 70 people would gather and study Torah all day long. His book Midrash Hezekaya (2 volumes) includes midrashim, commentaries, mussar, and practical words ordered according to the weekly parsah. Binding covered in cloth, disconnected, and falling apart. Disconnected pages. 52, 24 pages. 23cm. Generally ok condition.
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