Auction 52
Lot 249:
Sefer HaYashar v’HaTov, droshim for moadim and chiddushim on sugiyot from Shas, by Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Friedman of Liska. Stefanski Chassidut 171.
Part 1: [2], 92, 46, [4] leaves.
Part 2: [1], 42 leaves.
New, handsome leather bindings with golden inscriptions on the spine. Worming holes, a few defects, stains, overall good condition.
The title page of part 1 has stamps of the gaon Rabbi “Shaul Broch of Nietra, Av Beit Din of Yirayim Kosoy”, and additional stamps: “Yosef Zvi Friedman of Kosoy”, and a stamp in a foreign language of Herman Schoenfeld of Kroly.”
Rabbi Shul Brach (1865-1940) was a Hungarian posek and Av Beit Din of Mogendorf, Kroly, and Kosoy. He was known as a leading figure in the fight against secularization and Zionism, he would say: “anyone who believes in Torat Moshe must distance himself from the tents of the Zionists and Mizrachists and avoid eating and drinking with them, as with non-Jews, and they ought to be separated from kahal Yisrael.” He was close to Admorim of Sighet and Bobov. He wrote many works including Givat Shaul, Shaul Bachir Hashem, and more.
The author, Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Friedman of Liska (1798-1874) was a great Admor in Hungary. He was a student of the Yismach Moshe and of Admorim Rabbi Shalom of Belz, Rabbi Yisrael of Ruzhin, Rabbi Meir of Przmyslan, and the Divrei Chaim of Sanz. He was the rabbi of Rabbi Yeshayle Krestirer. He was known as a miracle-worker and wrote Ach Pri Tevuah, HaYashar v’HaTov, and more.
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