[2], 182 leaves. Small hole on the title page, moth holes, good condition.
Blank first page has the signature of Rabbi Yosef Lerner (see below) and chiddushim handwritten, the body of the work has three handwritten glosses and many dozens of corrections in two kinds of handwriting.
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’.
