Auction 62

Basic Book: Complete Set of the Talmud Yerushalmi, Shapira Press - Zhytomyr, 1863-1867 Ownership Signatures

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Talmud Yerushalmi, with the commentaries Pnei Moshe and Mar’eh HaPanim, Korban HaEda and the Tosefet titled Shirei Korban. Complete set of four volumes, printed by the partners, grandsons of the Slavuta Rav, Rabbi Chanina Lipa and Rabbi Yehoshua Heschel Shapira in Zhytomyr. Considered a basic book, see more in Stefansky Sifrei Yesod 113. 

4 volumes: 
Volume I: Seder Zer’aim – 1866. [5], 14, 14-60; 30; 31; 33; 42; 24; 18; 33; 14; 8 (the last leaf, leaf 9 is missing) leaves. 
Volume II: Seder Moed – 1862. [2], 52, 32, 20, 23, 20, 21, 2-23, 55, 61, 39, 31, 17, 34 leaves. A separate title page for tractate Shabbat – 1860. Some of the leaves and sheets were bound not in their order. 
Volume III: Seder Nashim – 1867. [2], 79, 45, 35, 56, 51, 41 leaves. 
Volume IV: Seder Nezikin – 1865. [2], 33; 2-29; 2-26; 42; 31; 17-26; 6; 15; 9 leaves. 

Condition varies. 2 of them without a binding and the 2 others with a detached binding. Stains and mold stains in several places. Moth perforations and varied blemishes. Has not been examined leaf after leaf. 

On the title pages of two volumes. signatures of Rabbi David ben Shimon the Devash [see below]. On the section of Nezikin, stamps of על חלק נזיקין חותמות "נחום בהרב ר’ מרדכי טווערסקי"  – the Admor Rabbi Menachem Nachum Twersly [see below]. 

In addition, stamps of "נדבת קלמן ב"ר מרדכי מטאלנא"

Admor Rabbi Menachem Nachum Twersky (1894-1944) was the son of Rabbi Mordechai Yosef of Zlatopoly and son-in-law of Rabbi Yosef Meir Twersky, the Admor of Mahanovka. Served as Admor of Warsaw after his father. Died in the Shoah; before he was murdered with his family, he said “we are going out, all of us, to the Akeidah as Jews, ashreinu that we have merited this.”


Rabbi David son of Shimon – the Devash [1826-1879]: At the age of 28 he immigrated from Morocco to Israel with his family, when he arrived in Jerusalem he discovered that the Sephardi community were in a state of severe poverty. He began to arrange the communal matters, establishing a new committee. Despite his desire to remain anonymous, when he reached Jerusalem he became well known due to the following incident. When Rabbi Yehuda Papu, son of the ‘Peleh Yoetz’ was ill, he stood up when the young Rabbi David entered his room, despite not managing to do so for other sages. He explained to the other sages that when Rabbi David entered the room he was informed from Heaven that a holy man had come to visit him and that he must stand up in his honor. So, Rabbi David’s name became known throughout Jerusalem, and multitudes began flocking to him. He established the Machane Yehuda neighborhood outside the walls of the Old City.