Auction 38
Lot 188:
Tosefta by Rabbeinu HaGra, a collection on mussar from his exegeses, with an exegesis by Rabbi Shmuel ben Avraham Moltzon, printed with many additions. 144 pages. Detached binding, stains, tears and damage, overall fair condition.
This copy has important signatures: the blank first page has the note “I exchanged with the Raf Grievsky Shvat 1923, Mordechai Gimpel Berg.” At the beginning and end of the book are blurred stamps of the Bikur Holim hospital in Jerusalem, and many signatures of “Mordechai Gimpel Berg”, additional signature on the blank first page: “Yitzhak Halberstadt” and blurred signatures at the end: “Shimon bar Yitzhak Mordechai Deutsch, Jerusalem.” Back of the binding has the note: “Mr. Shimon Deutsch.”
Kabbalist Rabbi Mordechai Gimpel (1903-1957) served as Rabbi of Tiberias in 1934, and later was appointed mashgiach of the Sha’ar HaShamayim yeshiva in Jerusalem. He wrote the “Beer Mordechai.”
The historian Rabbi Pinchas Grievsky of Jerusalem was the assistant of Rabbi Yehiel Michal Pines in the administration of the Bikur Holim hospital in Jerusalem. He published articles in Sha’arei Zion, Jerusalem, 1921.
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