Auction 51
Lot 183:
Volume with important works:
1. Mutzal MiEsh by Rabbi Yaakov Alfandery, “this dear book is difficult to find in this country so I am publishing it for the zechut harabim…with notes prepared by … the holy Zussman ben Mordechai Fishel Sofer, Avdak of Holosh.” Printed by Franz Nirshi, Pressburg 1878. [3], 51 leaves.
The back of the title page has a stamp from the publisher and the notes’ author, “Zussman ben Mordechai Fishel Sofer Av Beit Din of Holosh”. Note on the title page: “This book belongs to Shraga Yehuda Klein of Pest.” The last leaf (detached) has a long note with chiddushei torah.
2. HaMakneh, 3 sections, “al Makneh and Kinyan…with a general rule and details for each of the laws of bnei noach.” By Rabbi Zussmann Eliezer baal Yalkut Eliezer and Et Sofer and more. Separate title page for each section.
1. Introduction of the book has an agadic pamphlet called Tamar Devorah. Pressburg 1877. [4], 16 pages. [1], 137 leaves.
2. Pamphlet of agadah called Beit Yisrael. Pressubrg 1880. 8 pages, 74 leaves.
3. Printed by Itzik Leib Rosenbaum, Paksh 1884. 8 pages, 127 leaves. Approbations from the Maharam Shik who also wrote a long pilpul on the author’s words, and Rabbi Yoel Unger of Rechnitz. A number of places feature the stamp of the author Rabbi Zussmann, see below.
The author (and stamper) Rabbi Eliezer Zussman Sofer (1828-1903) was the son of Rabbi Ephraim Fishel Sofer, a student of the Chatam Sofer. He was rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Kishkonels and Paksh, Hungary, a leader of Orthodox Jewry in Hungary at the end of the 19th century. He corresponded with halachic greats of his generation; he was offered rabbinical positions in additional important towns of the area but refused because of the presence there of reformists who strayed from the torah.
He wrote Yalkut Eliezer (collected from midrashim, organized alphabetically, with exegesis. 3 volumes), Yalkut Sofer (on the Book of Psalms); Et Sofer (“klalim” in halacha. 4 volumes); Damesek Eliezer (on the Torah, 2 vols.); Sefer HaMakneh (on kinyanim; 2 vols.); MiLeah Ketoret (drashot and eulogies); Yad Eliezer (chiddushei Aggadah, printed as an appendix to his brother’s book Peles Chaim).
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