Auction 77
Lot 61:
Sefer Pnei Aryeh, "First section of Shut, Psakim and Bei’urim", authored by the Gaon Rabbi Aryeh Leib of Breslau, Av Beit Din of Emden and Rotterdam. The book contains correspondence with the author’s contemporaries including Rabbi Pinchas Horowitz – the Hahafla’ah, Rabbi Meir Posner – the Beit Meir, Rabbi Yeshaya Pick, Rabbi David Tevil of Lisa and more. First ediiton, Amsterdam – 1790. [3], 106 leaves. Printed on thick, quality paper. Some moth damage, stains and tears along the edge sof the first and last leaves. Old, worn binding, partly detached. Good overall condition.
Interesting! Early reference to the philanthropists of America
In Siman 41 of the book, there is an interesting responsum about "נדר לעני ונתעשר העני" referring to the Philadelphian philanthropist Rabbi Chaim Solomon: "על דברת אשר הודיעני… שהנדיב הרר"ח שבפילידעלפיא, הטה אזן לקול דברי וחין מליצתי בעד כ’ פלוני ונדב לו… שמחתי מאוד על נדבת לבב האיש ההוא ועל תכונתו הטובה, בהיות לו אזנים קשובות לקול דוברי מישרים…". Rabbi Chaim Solomon was an American broker who immigrated from POland to New York during the American Revolution and was a major funder of the Continental Army during the American War of Independence. Solomon was a famed philanthropist and member of the Milveh Yisrael community of Philadelphia, donating the largest sum of money for its main building.
Pedigreed with glosses
In the book, stamps (impressed, inkless) of the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Binyamin Kluger, the son of the famed Gaon Rabbi Shlomo KLuger the Rav of Brody. In two places in the book (trimmed) glosses, one of them lengthy.
Rabbi Avraham Binyamin Kluger (1841-1916) was the son of the famed Rabbi Shlomo Kluger of Brody. He learned mostly under his father, who writes of his son’s Kushiyot as young as 7 or 10 in the book Milei DeNezikin”. He was known as a great Talmid Chacham and a founder of the Mekitzei Nirdamim Society. His responses were printed in 1933 in the book Shut Sha’arei Binyamin.
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