Auction 65
Lot 84:
Sefer Sha’arei Torah, section III, by the Gaon Rabbi Binyamin, author of Shut Shemen Roke’ach and Shav Shemateta and Sha’arei Deah. First edition, Ohel 1872. Originally, [2], 133 leaves. In this copy, the title page, the following leaf and 5 leaves at the end are missing (completed by hand, see below).
On verso of the binding and on the flyleaf, many signatures handwritten by the Gaon Rabbi Amram Rosenberg Av Beit Din of Ratzfert; his stamps appear on the first leaf and more.
This copy is indeed incomplete yet exemplifies more than anything else the concept of Amal Toah (the toil of the Torah) since the Rav the owner of the book made considerable efforts to copy all the missing leaves. Bound at the end of the volume are 11 pages in his dense script containing the missing leaves of the book. The Rav worked long hours to copy the missing Divrei Torah so the book will be complete, as he himself wrote at the end of his copying: "…כדי שיהי’ הספר בשלמותו וזכות הגאון המחבר זצ"ל יעמוד לנו ולכ"י ולראי’ בעה"ח אור ליום ה’ ואלה המשפטים תרצ"ט… ראצפערטא יצ"ו עמרם ראזענבערג".
In addition, inside the book, missing parts of leaves were also completed by him.
Detached binding. Tears and wear. Taping and creases.
The Gaon Rabbi Amram Rosenberg, the son of the Gaon Rabbi Shaul Av Beit Din of ratzfert author of the Chemdat Shaul. Rabbeinu succeeded his great father as Rav of Ratzfert since his passing in 1940. Was the son-in-law of Rabbi Shlomo Dov Heller Rosh Av Beit Din of Siget. Perished in Sivan, 1944.
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