Auction 44
Lot 013:
60 drashot organized alphabetically on a variety of topics foundational to Judaism on the behavior of man, by Rabbeinu Bachay ben Asher ben Khalava, one of the Rishonim and a student of the Rashba, author of the famous Rabbeinu Bachay on the Torah. “We have added to it the work Shulchan Arba attributed to Rabbeinu Bachay”, with laws related to the seudah. Printed by Yitzhak Moshe Bakshet. Zhitomir 1870. 128 leaves. Many stains, a few brown pages, overall good condition.
The title page and first blank page have stamps: “Rabbi Yosef Lerner”. The blank first page has note: “This book Kad HaKemach I bought in 1816, signed David Dov ber Mordechai Zvi”. On the back of the binding is a notice of death with identical handwriting with the date 1802.
Rabbi Yosef Lerner (1908-1988), "the butcher of the Hazon Ish", rabbi of Tkuch and Ivesht in Romania, was born in Bender, Romania and orphaned by his mother at a young age, and his father, who was governor of his people, lost all his money. He invested himself in Torah and work, studied at the Kishinev Yeshiva and was taken to the son-in-law by Rabbi David Zimmering, one of the leaders of the yeshiva. An avid follower of the Rebbe Yitzchak Twersky of Skvira – Kishinev. In 1959 he immigrated to the Holy Land and refused the rabbinical positions offered to him and chose the city of Bnei Brak for his moshav for the education of his children, where he lovingly called the Rebbe ‘Hazon Ish’, who in turn reciprocated love when he instructed Rabbi Yosef to serve as Shochet u’Bodek of Bnei Brak, and the late Maran made sure to eat from his slaughter and even ordered some people to take Rabbi Yosef as a mohel to their son wherever he feared God. And a repetition of Rabbi Yaakov Landau Rabbi of Bnei Brak who would fill his place when he was absent from the city, and so for over a decade Rabbi Yosef was a rabbi of the city of Bnei Brak. Rabbi Yosef was also the permanent Shochet u’Bodek of the Rebbe of the ‘Chalkat Yehoshua’ of Biala and was on friendly terms with the Governor of Ponivezh, the Rebbe of the ‘Imrei Chaim’ of Moiznitz and the Rebbe of Moharan of Spinka. Author of ‘Lekh Yosef’.
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