Auction 77
Lot 173:
Complete set of Mishneh Torah "which is Hayad Hachazakah by the Gaon Rav Rabbeinu Moshe Bar Maimon [the Rambam]". With all the addiitons and elucidations and Sefer Kovetz on the Yad Hachazakah by the Gaon Rabbi Nachum Trivitsh Av Beit Din of Nikolsburg. Edited by Rabbi Nachman Avraham Goldberg. Julius Zittenfeld Press, Berlin, 1868. The book’s title, number of section and place of printing are in red lettering. Sterotype printing of the Berlin 1862 edition. Multiple pagination. 8 sections bound in 4 volumes. Worn leather bindings, most of them without spines. Brittle paper. Tears, stains and other blemishes. At the end of section II, blemishes to the text dozens of the last leaves. Fair overall condition.
On the flyleaf of the 2 first volumes, pencil notations: "זה הרמב"ם שייך להר’ מענדיל מדעעש ש"ב [שטרנברג]".
The Mekubal Rabbi Menachem Mendel Sternberg of Safed (1843-1916) known as Rabbi Mendeleh Deyzher after his Deyzh origin. It is told that often, he forgot to eat since he was so immersed in his study; he also did not notice that mice were nibbling the edges of his boots. He immigrated to Eretz Yisrael and settled in Safed, becoming the spiritual leader of the contemporary Chassidic community of the town.
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