Auction 56
Lot 98:
Sefer Yavin Shmu’ah by Rabbi Shlomo Algazi, a work on Sefer Halichot Olam by Rabbi Yeshua ben Yosef HaLevi of Tlemcen and on Klalei HaGemara by Maran Rabbi Yosef Caro, written also on Sefer Halichot Olam.
Printed in Livorno, 1792. 142 [supposed to be 144] leaves. Catalogued in the Rare Books section of the National Library. The inside of the page is Halichot Olam and around it are Yavin Shmu’ah and Klalei HaGemara.
New binding, stains, worming damage in a number of places, worming holes, 4 last leaves (indices) are filled with worming damage and much tape, lone tears, overall condition of most of the book is good.
The title page has a handwritten inscription from Rabbi Zundel of Salant: “for the Beit Midrash Menachem Zion, 4.20 grush, Mr. Yehiel Mezrich.” Inside the book is a stamp: “Belongs to the Beit Midrash Menachem Zion in the Hurva of Rabbi Yehuda HaChassid, in Jerusalem.”
Rabbi Zundel of Salant (1786-1865), the founder of the mussar movement and the teacher of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter. The dayan of the Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem. He studied in the renowned Volozhin yeshiva under Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin. After his rabbi’s death he moved to Pozna to study from Rabbi Akiva Eiger, in order to learn his unique approach to learning and his method.
He was also extremely knowledgeable in the field of engineering and in math. He also spoke many languages and was fluent in general and Jewish history. He took an interest in grammar and tradition, devised various rules of grammar that comply with the Vilna Gaon’s rules of grammar. Rabbi Zundel greatly admired this subject because he saw it to require precise understanding of the material studied. In all of the books of the Churva of Rabbi Yehuda Hachasid, the place he prayed, he used to write “Lmidrash Menachem Zion”, as can be seen in this copy.
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