Auction 62
Lot 146:
Midrash Rabbeinu Bechaye on the Torah, the sections of Vayikra, Bamidbar and Devarim. Printed in Warsaw in 1878. In the license by the censor, the year "1893" appears; apparently a mistake. 43, [1], 49, [1], 54 leaves. A separate title page for each section.
Moth perforations. Small tears. Some taping. Some of the leaves are cut close to the text. Fair-good overall condition.
Appearing on the front flyleaf are two stamps of the Mashgiach, the Tzaddik Gaon Rabbi Yechezkel Levinstein, one from his time in the Mir Yeshiva and the other from the Ponivezh Yeshiva.
Rabbi Yehezkel Levinstein (1885-1974) studied at the Radin Yeshiva, and was a disciple of Rav Yerucham Leibovitz, and of Rav Zvi Hirsch Brody. Served as spiritual mashgiach for the Kleck and Mir yeshivot, and as mashgiach in the Petach Tikva yeshiva, headed by Rav Reuven Katz. After the passing of his Rav, the mashgiach of the Mir yeshiva, he returned to Poland and succeeded his rabbi’s position. At the Mir Yeshiva, he remained until the Holocaust, and then travelled with the students to Shanghai, where he became noticeable as a leader of the yeshiva, and sages would come to him with their questions. After he moved to Israel he served as mashgiach of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak. Among his students were Rav Gedalya Eisman, Rav Shlomo Welba, Rav Yitzhak Yerucham Borodiansky, Rav Dan Segel, Rav Shlomo Broda, and Rav Nachum Aba Grosbard. Considered a great Mussar sage of the last few generations. He was nicknamed HaMashgiach.
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