Auction 35
Lot 123:
Title page from the book Divrei Geonim by Rabbi Haim Aryeh Hakohen of Sighet, printed in Ungvar 1870 (first edition). The upper part has the signature: “Shlomo Ganzfried”—see below. Two stamps of the Gaon Rabbi Yehezkel Bennett, one from when he led the rabbinate of Tolchova and the second when he was in the rabbinate of Worohel.
The Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried (1804-1886) was the son of Rabbi Yosef, who was a dayan and motz in Ungvar. He was a student of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Heller, the author of the well-known work “Tiv Gittin.” His first book, Kesset HaSofer on halachot ketivat stam, was published in Offen in 1834, and merited the endorsement of the Chatam Sofer, who wrote “one cannot give students smicha as sofrim until they are proficient in this book”, and he wrote notes to the book. He served as Ra’avad of Ungvar from 1850 until his death. He wrote dozens of important works, but he is most famous for his popular work the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, which has been published in dozens of editions since it was first released in Ungvar in 1864.
His grandson and student was Rabbi Yehezkel Bennett, son of Rabbi Gershon Wolf Bennett (son-in-law of Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried). The work Shem Shlomo on sugiyot of Shas by Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried has printed at the beginning the writer’s biography by this grandson. He served briefly as a dayan in Tolchova alongside his father-in-law Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Glick of Tolchova (author of the Shut Yad Yitzhak and the Beer Yitzhak on Masechet Chulin), and then served for around 25 years as Av Beit Din and Rosh Yeshiva of Worohel. He wrote 19 works, of which Shut Meishiv Taam has been printed. He died in 1913.
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