Kiryat Channah, 45 halachic tshuvot by the gaon Rabbi Gershon Koblenz (Maziya), a dayan of Metz.
Only edition, rare, “with the permission of His Royal Highness Louis XVI”. 59 (supposed to be 58), [3] leaves. The National Library catalogues it in its
Rare Books collection. At the beginning are prefaces by the author and his son. New binding, high-quality paper, stains, professionally taped in the margins of the title page and the first leaf, overall good condition.
The title page has
an important blurred stamp from the gaon Rabbi Meir Leibush HaMalbim. Additional stamps: “Library of the gaon tzaddik Rabbi Chaim Berlin.” Antique signature: “belongs to the Admo-dodi gaon Moharar Moshe … residing in Biga”—not checked thoroughly.
Rabbi Meir Leibush ben Yehiel Michal Weizer (the Malbim, 1809-1880) was a gaon born in Wahlin, a commentator on the Bible and one of the achronim. He worked in the Russian Empire, Prussia, and Romania. He is most known for his Bible commentary, which shows his wide-ranging scholarship—in his commentaries can be found references to philosophers of the past like Kant, Philo, and more.
He wrote many books on a variety of subjects, including:
Mikra’ei Kodesh (commentary on Nach);
Artzot HaChaim (chiddushim on Shulchan Aruch Orech Chaim);
Eretz Chemda (drashot on the Torah),
Artzot HaShalom (various drashot);
Torah v’HaMitzvah (commentary on the Torah, Mechilta, Safra and Sifrei);
Yesodei Chochmat HaHigayon (exegesis on the laws of logic);
Mashal u’Melitzah; Ala L’Trufah (commentary on the Mishnah Torah, Ch. 4 from Halachot De’ot);
Yair Or (dictionary of synonyms)
Rabbi Haim Berlin of Volozhin was the son of the Natziv. He served as Chief Rabbi of Moscow, and as the most famous Rosh Yeshiva in the world, of the Volozhin yeshiva (known as the Mother of Yeshivot). In 1906 he moved to Jerusalem, and after the death of Rabbi Shmuel of Salant he became leader of the Ashkenazi Eida in Jerusalem, even though he refused the official position.
