Auction 75
Lot 85:
Lengthy and impressive letter written on both sides of official stationery – handwritten and signed by the Gaon Rabbi Yehoshua Leibovich Av Beit Din of Reitag – addressed to the Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Shimshon Margolis – with details about his book Damesek Eliezer – Retiag, 1928.
In 1928, Rabbi Yehoshua Leibovich published the work Damesek Eliezer on Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim, a work by his grandfather the Gaon Rabbi Eliezer Leibovich, with a special addition edited by Rabbeinu. Originally, the work was written as an abbreviated commentary on the words of the magen Avraham on the Shulchan Aruch. Rabbeinu integrated the commentary into the words of the Magen Avraham (like our contemporary Schottenstein edition of the Talmud). In his lengthy letter, Rabbi Leibovich asks Rabbi Yaakov Shimshon, who was then in New York, to serve as his agent in the USA for selling his books.
"והנני שולח לוטא פה איזה מכתבי המודעות שנדפסו לפרסם העולם ולהדביקם בכותלי ביהמ"ד הגדולים דשם… הפירוש הנ"ל הוא מזקיני הגאוה"צ זצללה"ה שהיה בדור של.. שהי’ צדיק וגאון מפורסם נכד בעל מגלה עמוקות זי"ע ועכ"י עמלתי וידעתי בסידורו המו"ל לסדרם בתוך דברי המג"א שהוא הי’ עבודה קשה שבמקדש לא יאומן כי יסופר וזה חלקי מכל עמלי בעזר השי"ת…".
Imressive autograph!
Official stationery, written on both sides.
23X29 cm.
Fold lines. Tears not affecting the text along the fold lines. Good condition.
The Gaon Rabbi Yehoshua Leibovich Av Beit Din of Reitag (1944) the son the of the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Leibovich Av Beit Din of Senta. Was a disicple of the Arugat Habosem. His second wife was the daughter of Rabbi Zeev Wolf Tzitron Av Beit Din of Dorog. In 1920 became Av Beit Din of Reitag and its Rosh Yeshiva.
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