Auction 34
Lot 123:
1. Olelut Ephraim, two sections with two title pages, Warsaw 1883. Bound with the work Zion L’Drash, Premyslan 1877. Various defects. Overall fair to good condition. Title page of the book has the handwritten signature of Av Beit Din of Deretchka, “Shmuel Binyamin Sofer, son of the Rav of Paksh.”
2. Shut Pri HaSadeh, first and second sections bound together, by Rabbi Eliezer Deutsch, Av Beit Din in Anihod. Section 1: [4], 52, [2], 71-94 leaves. Section 2: [5], 121 leaves. Title page has the stamp: “Shmuel Binyamin Sofer of Deretchka and the Galil.” Throughout the book are corrections and glosses in his handwriting.
Rabbi Shmuel Binyamin Sofer (1873-1943) was the Av Beit Din of Deretchka and was known as the Divrei Sofrim. He was the son of Rabbi Zusman Sofer, Av Beit Din of Paksh and son-in-law of Rabbi Shraga Feival Falk of Zetna. He was a student of the Shevet Sofer of Pressburg. Beginning in 1903 he began to serve as rabbi of Deretchka in place of his brother, Rabbi Yosef Leib Sofer, who moved to Paksh to succeed their father. His work, the Divrei Sofrim, was about klalim of the Talmud and was written in three sections with Shut and Chiddushei Divrei Sofrim. See: “The Chatam Sofer and his Students”, p. 718.
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