Auction 55

Sefer Lekitat Yosef—Rabbi Josfa Hirschfeld. Vienna 1826. Chiddushei torah, notes, and signatures of ownership.

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Lekitat Yosef, with translation of Hebrew words and their locations in Tanach, by Rabbi Josfa Hirschfeld. Among the leaves are notes and signatures.

The blank binding leaf has chiddushei torah that begin with the inscription “I will begin to write…about what I chiddashti with God’s help in Tishrei of 1871”,

with the signature “Yitzhak Kalman”, as well as “Chaim Chanon Neiman”, “Shlomo Hyman ben Yosef”. Other notes in Hebrew and foreign languages.

The first page has the signature “Avraham of Postaha” (Rabbi Avraham Kornfeld, Av Beit Din of Makowe, student of the Ktav Sofer and Rabbi Aharon David Deutsch, author of the Goren David).

[4] leaves, 71, [1] page. Large tear with missing part of title page, stains, defective binding, good condition.