Auction 57

Shut Binyan shel Simcha by Rabbi Avraham Simcha, Ram at the Volozhin yeshiva and Av Beit Din in Stislov, nephew of the baal Nefesh HaChaim. First edition, Vilna 1869.

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Shut Binyan shel Simcha on the 4 sections of the Shulchan Aruch by Rabbi Avraham Simcha bar Nachman, nephew and student of Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin, author of the Nefesh HaChaim. The end of the book has a long tshuva from his uncle, Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin, sent to Rabbi Uri Shraga Feivush, Av Beit Din of Dubrovno.


In the introduction written by the author’s son (Rabbi Chaim Yosef), he says that this is a small portion of his father’s teachings, while most of them were destroyed in a large fire in Stislov in 1858.

The blank binding leaf has a stamp of ownership of “Yehoshua Alter Wildman, Avdak of Końskowola”, author of the works Binyan Yehoshua, Emek Yehoshua, and Birkat Yehoshua.

[2] leaves, 106 pages. Stains, small tear to the title page (no missing part of page), detached binding, good condition.