Auction 55

Volume with 2 research books on Jerusalem printings of the 19th-20th century, copy owned by Rabbi Leib Dayan.

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1. Sefer Imrei Binah on Agadot of Chazal, an interesting and original work explaining the wisdom and knowledge behind the agadot of Chazal, which are correct on an analytic and natural letter, and that they elucidate Hashem’s hashgacha and the ideas of Gan Eden and Gehenom and mussar and kabbalah, all with research. By Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Leib Lachovitzky, son of Rabbi Yaakov Kopil. Printed in Warsaw, 1900. 59 leaves. Important approbations.

2. Sefer Torat HaAdam, “the torah of belief and ideas and middot”, a research work by Rabbi Yehoshua Folk Zeev Wolfson, rabbi in Poltishan, son of Rabbi Yosef Zvi. Part 4, printed in Jerusalem; the title page doesn’t have the year of printing but based on other bibliographic lists it is 1913. [2], [81] leaves. Defective pagination at the end. Title page has gilded letters. The first leaf: “Divrei Yemei Irenu Poltishan and its rabbis and gedolim from the day of its founding until now.” Catalogued as rare by the National Library. Wear, overall good condition.

Stamps of – Rabbi Aryeh Leib Herschler (1850-1917) was a known dayan in the Old Yishuv of Jerusalem at the beginning of the 20th century. Served for 25 years as a dayan in the court of Rabbi Shmuel Salant. Led a group of founders of the Beit Yisrael neighborhood in Jerusalem (there is a street there named after him) and served as rabbi and head of the residential association, and then was a founder of Sha’arei Pina and Givat Sha’ul. Was a member of the State Court, and a representative of the Ashkenazi Jewish community at the Municipality in Jerusalem under the Ottomans.