Auction 70
Lot 269:
Shut by the Admor the holy Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Alter of Ger author of Chidushei HaRim. From leaf 93 and onward, Chidushei HaRim on the Shas. At its end, additions to the book by the author’s grandson who was also the publisher – the Admor author of the Siftei Tzaddik of Filtz. Second edition – Warsaw, 1882. [2], 157, 18 leaves. Rare: two identical title pages. Leaf 157 appears again at the end of the book. In addition, leaves 3-4 of the second pagination are bound at the beginning.
Old binding, worn and unravelled spine. Stains. Good overall condition.
On the flyleaf, a dedication handwritten and signed by Rabbi Akiva Lindenfeld (a disciple of the Shevet Sofer, author of Tomer Dvorah on the Torah and Moadim, which was published in 1970, after his death in the Holocaust) to Rabbi Natan Zvi of Brisk (Av Beit Din of Tshoke, Hungary, the son of the Gaon Rabbi Yehoshua Brisk) from 1902.
On the title page, stamps: "שרגא שמואל שניטצלער אב"ד דקה"י בעקעשטשאבא והגליל יצ"ו" and identical foreign stamps – Rabbi Sheraga Shmuel Schnitzler Av Beit Din of Tashaba (1889-1980) the son of Rabbi Baruch Yehuda, a descendant of the holy Gaon Rabbi Shmelke of Nikolsburg. Was a Chassidic Rav of several villages and towns in Hungary. Was a famed wonder-worker. Was a disciple of Rabbi Menachem Brody of Kaliv and Rabbi Yehuda Greenwald of Satmar and a leading Chassid of the Maharid of Belz and his son the Admor Rabbi Aharon, He merited being buried near Rabbi Aharon’s gravesite. Was Rav of Tshaba (Békéscsaba, Hungary). After World War II, immigrated to Jerusalem, where by the advice of his holy Rav of Belz, he refused a position of Rav and where he passed away in 1980. After his passing, his Divrei Torah were published by his grandson and successor Rabbi Meshulam Shalom Weinberg in the book Birkot Shmuel. His father-in-law (by his second marriage) was the Admor Rabbi Eliezer Zussia of Skolen. His descendants are important Chareidi Admorim, Rabbis and dignitaries in Israel and abroad.
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