Auction 38
Lot 241:
2 volumes with the work Sefer Lashon HaZahav on masechtot Brachot, Eruvin, and shabbat, by Rabbi Zeev Wolf ben Rabbi Elazar, rabbi of Luzhansk and student of Rabbeinu Elimelech of Luzhansk.
1. Brachot—Warsaw 1899, two title pages. Eruvin—Pietrekov 1899. Two title pages. Important endorsements, comprehensive in scope, from sages and Chassidic masters of the period, including Rabbi Shlomo the First of Babov, the Divrei Yehezkel of Sinoa, Rabbi David Moshe of Chortkov, Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim Maizel of Lodz, Rabbi Haim of Brisk, the Admorim of Grodzinsk, Gur, Sadigura, Rodoshitz, Amnishov, Ostrovtza, Pilz, Sochotchov, Trisk, Alexander, Husiatyn, Worka, Radzin, and more. At the end of the work are 18 pages of subscribers, including Admorim and many well-known rabbis from across the Polish, Romanian, and wider Jewish world.
2. Masechet Shabbat—Pietrekov 1901. Each section has the stamp of the person responsible for the publication: “Avraham Yosef Fisher of Lodz, now living in Peshischa, brought to the publisher the book Lashon HaZahav”, with his handwritten signature. The volume with Shabbat has the same stamp (without the signature), with an updated wording: “the person who brought to the publisher … also Baruch She’Amar, Sefer Baruch Taam.” Brachot title page has stamps: “Issachar Dov Berish Adler bar A. Zvi Povianitz.”
Author Rabbi Zeev Wolf ben Rabbi Elazar of Lizhansk (1680-1793) was a student of Rabbi Yaakov Yitzhak Segel Harif of Dokla. Served as rabbi of Lizhansk during the time of Rabbi Elimelech (the Noam Elimelech), they had a strong connection and the author was one of his chassidim and merited long life, dying at 113 years old.
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