Auction 35
Lot 016:
Parshat Derachim, 26 droshim by the Gaon Rabbi Yehuda Rosanis, the author of the Mishnah LaMelech on the Rambam. [3], 81 leaves. Old binding is worn (leather spine), stains, tape on the title page covers the right upper edge and a little of the introduction. Overall good condition.
The blank first page bears a dedication handwritten by Rabbi Pinchas Leib Friedan, Av Beit Din of Komran. Note: “Lieber Freund” (dear friend). Additional notes in Yiddish, stamp on title page: “Moshe Yaakov Ungar.”
Rabbi Pinchas Leib Friedan (the Divrei Pnei Aryeh, who lived 1802-1873) was the son of Rabbi Moshe Leipnik. He was a student of Rabbi Woolf Boskowitz (the Seder Mishnah). He served first as a dayan in Bonihod. In 1837 he was appointed to be rabbi of Komran (Komrarom) in place of Rabbi Avraham Freistadt, a job he served in for 42 years. His sons were Rabbi Mordechai Eleizer of Ada, and Rabbi Moshe of Hamburg.
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