Auction 51
Lot 180:
Sefer Ktav Sofer, drashot on the parshiyot by Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer, son of the Chatam Sofer, with the work Ohel Leah, a biography of the Ktav Sofer by his son Rabbi Shlomo Sofer.
The blank prefatory leaves, the title page, and additional pages have many signatures of “Book Purchasing Company of the Yeshiva of the Admor Zvi Meizlish shlita here in Neimark.” Among the pages are also two signatures of Rabbi “Zvi Hirsch Meizlish”, author of the Shut Mikdashei HaShem, and a signature of Rabbi Shlomo Teitelbaum of Limonov (would seem to be the son of Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Teitelbaum, Av Beit Din of Limonov and father-in-law of the Admor Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam of Babov, author of the Kerem Shlomo.
Additional notes which are unreadable. Partially missing copy: missing the title page and an additional page from the end. Tape on two pages, overall good condition.
Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Meizlish (1902-1974) was the grandson of Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, author of the Yismach Mose. He received smicha from Rabbi Meir Arik, Av Beit Din of Torna and he served as Rabbi in Limnov and Neimark. During the Shoah he documented dozens of complicated questions regarding Pikuach Nefesh which came to him at the height of the persecution from the death camp at Auschwitz. These he printed in his Shut Mikdashei HaShem. After the war he served as rabbi of the Bergen-Belsen camp, where he led a special beit din to discuss agunot laws. Upon the camp’s closure he immigrated to the US where he served as rabbi of the She’erit Yisrael community in Chicago.
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