Auction 57
Lot 45:
Second section of a machzor for the year, “minhag Poland, Bohemia, Moravia, Lithuania, and Russia…additional mechudash words never printed” with a Yiddish commentary in Tzena u’Reina lettering.
Printed by Yitzhak Madpis. 32, 32-57, [2], 58-60, 65-94, 52 leaves. New binding, title page and first leaves repaired with some text hidden, stains and wear, many signs of use, specific nodes of worming damage, overall fair condition.
The title page has a handwritten dedication from Rabbi Zundel of Salant, “for the midrash Menachem Zion in the churva of Rabbi Yehuda HaChassid”.
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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