Auction 44
Lot 040:
She’iltot d’Rav Achay Gaon with the first edition of She’ilat Shalom by Rabbi Yeshaya Pik Berlin, author of Mesoret HaShas. The body of the work has a number of handwritten glosses which highlight the gadlus of the author. The book also has signatures of Rabbi Yosef Lerner, the Rabbi of Tecuci and Ivest in Romania; and the shochet of the Chazon Ish, who may be the author of the notes. Stefanski Sifrei Yesod 219. [1], 56 leaves. Hole and erasures with damage to text on the title page, small tears that spread over a number of pages with damage to text, stains, good condition. 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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