Auction 55

Sefer HaMashbi”ach on the Yerushalmi, St. Louis 1920. Copy owned by Rabbi Meir Shapira of Lublin, with a handwritten note from him.

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Sefer HaMashbi”ach by Rabbi Moshe Shimon Zivitz, rabbi of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The first section on the Yerushalmi, Masechet Brachot, with the Tanina and Tlita’ah editions. Second section has tikkunim mashbichim in the Yerushalmi from across Shas. With approbation of the Chafetz Chaim, which appears as a facsimile in the book. Printed in St. Louis from 1918-20. 26 leaves, 16, 21, [2], 27-32 leaves; [10], 113, [1], 13, [1] leaves. New binding, defective. Stains and a few moisture marks, overall good condition.

The blank binding leaf and the title page have stamps: “Meir Shapira Av Beit Din and Ram in Pietrekov, ” see below. Stamps of the Yeshivat Chochmei Lublin Library. Page 18 of the last pagination set has a handwritten note from Rav Shapira.