Auction 48
Lot 198:
Shut Binyamin shel Simcha, by Rabbi Avraham Simcha, the Av Beit Din of Stislov. Accompanied by a long tshuva by his uncle, Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin. Only edition, Vilna 1869. [2], 53, 26 leaves. Stains, moth holes, tears in the last pages with some missing text, fair condition.
The title page of the book has a signature “Chaim Halberstam”, probably a forefather of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz, though we could not identity the writer of the signature…
Rabbi Yehiel Yaakov Weinberg (1884-1966) was the Rabbi of Pilvishky in Lithuania. He was a student of the Saba of Slobodka and the Rabbi of Maran HaGra’il Steinman. He served as head of the Rabbinical Beit Midrash of Berlin. His writings which survived the Shoah were published as a Shut “Sridei Esh.”
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