Auction 77
Lot 55:
"Sefer Kerovot which is a Machzor, precise and with an Ashkenazic translation" by the Gaon Rabbi Wolf Hidenheim – Wien, 1816. Volume IX for the two days of Shavu’ot, the custom of Poland, Bihmen, Mehren and Ungarin. 18, 155, 16 leaves. Two title pages. Stains and moth damage. Contemporary leather binding with restoration to spine. Good overall condition.
On the title page of the book, stamps of the Gaon Rabbi Yehuda Leib Friedman Av Beit Din of Pressburg. Ownership signature of Rabbi Leib ben Rabbi Shimon Betelheim. An additional signature that was not studied.
Rabbi Leib Friedman Rosh Av Beit Din of Pressburg (1863-1919) the son of Rabbi David and son-in-law of Rabbi Sheraha Feisch Fishman, Maggid Meisharim of Pressburg. A disciple of the Shevet Sofer. After his marriage was accepted as Dayan in Pressburg, where his father-in-law lived, and succeeded Rabbi David Neuman as Rosh Av Beit Din of the town. Author of Sefer Shut HaRibad – in his approbation for the book, the Da’at Sofer wrote: ‘נודע ביהודה בשערים המצויינים בהלכה הגאון המחבר ז"ל על ידי עוצם חריפותו וגדולתו בתורה, כי היה סיני ועוקר הרים צלל במים אדירים… ורבים שתו מבאר תורתו’ (Hachatam Sofer Vetalmudav, 1913).
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