Auction 47
Lot 105:
Tov Yigal, with drashot and shut on Mishnah Sachir, by the gaon Rabbi Issachar Shlomo Teichtel, Av Beit Din of Pitshiyan. At the end is a drosh called Siach Yitzhak (separate title page), from his close friend Rabbi Yitzhak Weiss, Ra’avad of Werba. First edition, Berdiyov-Slovakia, 1926. 43, 26 leaves in the original—the copy is missing the last leaf. Approbation from Rabbi Meir Yehiel of Ostrovtza and more.
Binding detached, stains, brittle paper, a little bit of moth damage, overall good condition.
The title page has the author’s stamp: “Issachar Shlomo Teichtel, Ra’avad of Pitshiyan.”
Rabbi Issachar Shlomo Teitchtel hy”d (1885-1945) was the son of Yitzhak and author of the Mishnah Sachir and the book Em HaBanim Semecha. He was a student in the Pressburg yeshiva and under the Arugas HaBosem of Khust and others. He served as rabbi and rosh yeshiva, a dayan and teacher in the small Jewish community of the resort town of Pitshiyan, in the Nietra district of western Slovakia.
Until the Shoah he, like most of Hungarian Jewry, held strong anti-Zionist views. He was close to the Admor the Minchas Eliezer of Munkatch, who was among the strongest opponents of Zionism. The events of the Shoah caused him to re-evaluate his worldview. He began to study deeply the sugiyot related to exile and the geulah, redemption either through nature or Hashem, Yishuv of the Land of Israel, and the relationship to those who built it while not following commandments. As a result of these searches he changed his perspective and began to support Zionism and immigration to Israel.
He wrote about this in the book Em HaBanim Semecha, which has since served as one of the foundational works of religious Zionism. He wrote most of the work while in an attic in the home he used to hide from the Nazis. He cited hundreds of sources from memory. The book was published in Budapest in 1943. He was murdered in 1945 by a goy and there are a few versions of how and when that took place.
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