Auction 44
Lot 070:
Keset HaSofer, “laws of writing a sefer torah, tefillin, mezuzot and megilat Esther, and fixing them, collected and written by [Gaon Rabbi] Shlomo…Ganzfried…of Ungvar. Also included are some words taken from the Gaon Amiti, Rabbi Moshe Sofer Av Beit Din of Pressburg [the Chatam Sofer].” This foundational work in hilchot Sta”m by the author of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch features an approbation from the Chatam Sofer, who says not to give permission to a scribe who is not proficient in this book, and adds: “I order anyone who must heed my words to own a copy of this book, which is all good…”. This edition also has approbations from Rabbi Haim Halberstam (the Divrei Haim) and Rabbi Yosef Shaul Natanson, who wrote two leaves of notes for this that don’t appear in the first edition. [3], 136 leaves. Stains, very good condition. 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.
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