Auction 51
Lot 191:
Sefer Shemen Afarsemon on the Torah by Rabbi Yaakov Tenenbaum, Av Beit Din of Potnok and author of Naharei Afarsemon. Munkatch 1899.
The title page and blank introductory leaves have many stamps of Rabbi David Yaakov Brisk, Av Beit Din of Tiszadada. The blank introductory leaf also has a long inscription testifying that the book belonged to Rabbi Yehoshua Brisk, Av Beit Din of Tiszadada.
Brittle paper, fair condition.
Rabbi Yehoshua Brisk (died 1908) was the son of the gaon Moshe Shmuel Brisk, Av Beit Din of Niorod, and father of the Maharam of Brisk. He was a Hungarian gadol who was connected with other tzaddikim of the generation and would meet with them often. He would travel to the Admor Divrei Chaim of Sanz and the Darchei Tshuva of Munkatch, Rabbi Yehoshua of Belz and Rabbi Zvi Hirsch of Liska. He served in the rabbinate of Tiszadada for around 45 years.
His son, Rabbi David Yaakov Brisk (1880-1944) succeeded his father in Tiszadada and was close to the Minchat Eliezer of Munkatch. He perished in the Shoah.
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