Auction 47
Lot 196:
Lot of three books with signatures of Rabbi Zeev Wolf HaLevi Tirnoar:
1. Sefer Etz Avot by Rabbi Yaakov Emdin. Marmarosh-Sighet 1912. The title page has the signature of “the holy Zeev Wolf HaLevi of Samkot”, and his stamp from when he was Avdak there. Good condition.
2. Complete Shvilei HaLeket by Rabbi Tzedakaya bar Avraham HaRofeh, Vilna 1887. The title page has the signature and stamp of the same rabbi, the blank first leaf has a long note with divrei Torah handwritten by the rabbi. The note takes up the whole page. Binding partially detached, good condition.
3. Amudei Gola by Rabbi Yitzhak of Corbeil (one of the Tosafot). Satmar 1935. The title page has the signature and stamp of the rabbi and the blank first leaf has a long note with divrei Torah handwritten by the rabbi. The note takes up the whole page. Binding a little loose, very good condition.
Attached is the book Beit Yisrael on the Torah, with the stamp of the rabbi’s son Rabbi Zvi HaLevi Tirnoar hy”d.
Gaon Rabbi Zeev Wolf HaLevi Tirnoar (1879 or 1882-1959) was rabbi of Lespezi, Shamkot, Sochava, and Paltichen, author of 39 Orot, on halachot of Shabbat. Student of Rav Yehuda Greenwald, the Ra’avad of Satmar, and Rav Moshe Greenwald, rabbi of Khust and author of Arugot HaBosem. Would travel to the tzaddikim of the generation, like Rabbi Issachar Dov Rokach of Belz, Rabbi Yisrael Zvi Rotenburg of Cassani, Rabbi Yisrael Hagar of Vizhnitz (lived the last few years of his life in Grosvradin). At the end of his life he moved to Israel and lived in Tzfat, where he served as rabbi of the She’erit HaPlita synagogue. Was father-in-law of Rabbi Aharon Yehiel Leifer, the Rebbe of Nadvorna-Banya-Tzfat. Famous as a miracle worker.
There is a story about him from when he was rabbi in Sochava: there was a drought and he gathered a minyan and organized a prayer for rain, while everyone was wearing their tallitot and tefillin. A short time later the rain began to fall, surprising the Jews and the goyim, who immediately thanked him and gave him gifts. He wrote Tal Orot on halachot of Shabbat (two sections), Shut Agudat Ezov on the Four Sections of the Shulchan Aruch, Tal Torah on the Torah and moadim, Chiddushim on the Shas and the Mishnah Torah by the Rambam.
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