Auction 44
Lot 208:
Q&A book from the sage Rabbi Yitzhak ben Rabbi Shmuel Adrabi. Second edition. 194, [1], 194-198 leaves. New binding, leather spine, professional repairs to the title page, stains, a few moth holes, handsome copy in good condition.
Pages 131 and 128 are filled in by hand using a very uniform and pretty handwriting. The title page and its back have many handwritten notes in Sefardi script. The title page and body of the work have many stamps: “Naftali Teitelbaum Avdak of Nyírbátor”. Also a Sefardi signature on the back of the title page which was not checked.
Rabbi Naftali Teitelbaum was the son of Rabbi Yisrael Yaakov (Yokel) Teitelbaum, a descendant of the Yismach Moshe. He was a student of the Kedushat Yom Tov and a true friend of the Divrei Yoel, who fought the Zionists and renovators. Died in 1941 before the Shoah reached Hungary.
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