Auction 20
Lot 193:
1. Nachal Eitan on the Rambam, by Rabbi Avraham HaMaskil L’Eitan, Av Beit Din of Novhardok, grandson of Rabbi Yisrael of Shklov. Ram printing, Vilna, 1835. 2. Zir Yitzhak—klalim, shot, and droshim, by Rabbi Yosef Zundel Salant, rabbi of: Birz, Kruk, and Yanova. At the beginning of the book is a letter from his uncle, Rabbi Yosef Zundel Salant. Two covers. Printed by Yehuda Leib Lipman Metz, Vilna 1876. Many stamps of ownership of Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Salant (1816-1909), the esteemed rabbi of Jerusalem for around seventy years, and leader of the Ashkenazi communities of Israel. He became famous as a genius in his youth, and was only 13 when his rabbi, Rabbi Avlei Paswaller (the Ra’avad of Vilna), sent him a letter with a difficult question regarding taking care of a get, showing that his rabbi already trusted his instructions as that of a Rav. In his youth he studied in a hevruta with Rabbi Yisrael of Salant (father of the Mussar movement). In 1841 he was invited to Israel to serve in the Jerusalem Rabbinate and lead the Prushim community, and he established educational and chessed institutions there, as well as a beit din and established the Ashkenazi community. Half-leather binding, stamps and listing of ownership. | 83; [2], 2-40, 9 pages. 30cm. Generally good condition.
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