Auction 77

Signatures, Glosses and Notations Handwritten by the Rabbis of the Bamberger Family: Nezirut Shimshon - First Edition Berlin 1764 / HaElef Lecha Shlomo - Lviv, 1910

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1. Sefer Nezirut Shimshon, glosses and Chidushei Dinim in Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim and its commentators "by the famed Chassid Rabbi Shimshon Chassid of Hamburg (Bloch) copied letter-by-letter from the sheet of Sefer Shulchan Aruch of the aforementioned Chassid, from his script…" With an approbation by Rabbi Yonason Eibeschutz (originally, at the end of the book; here bound at its beginning). First edition Berlin – 1764. [3], 26, [1] leaves. Moth damage and perforations. Fair-poor overall condition. 

Ownership signatures of Rabbi Moshe Aryeh Halevi Bamberger (with his handwritten signature, stamp, 2 glosses and several handwritten corrections – see below), Binyamin Bamberger, Chaim Yosef  Landsberg and an additional signature from Wurzburg that was not studied. 

2. Sefer Shut HaElef Lecha Shlomo, a thousand two hundred Shut on the four parts of the Shulchan Aruch by Rabbi Shlomo Kluger of Brody. With an approbation by his son Rabbi Avraham Binyamin. Section I. First edition, Lviv – 1910. [3], 5-102 leaves. Some tears and taping. Detached binding. Some leaves were cut in the printing process, slightly affecting the text. Stains. Good overall condition. 

Ownership signatures of Rabbi Zekel Halevi Bamberger and Rabbi Shimon (Simon) Bamberger and Rabbi Binyamin Bamberger. Interesting! The index of responses was apparently handwritten by Rabbi Zekel on 3 pages on verso of the binding and flyleaf (not completed). 

Rabbi Moshe Aryeh HaLevi Bamberger (1838-1900), Rav of Bad-Kissingen (Bavaria, Germany) for approx. 25 years. Sixth son of the Rav of Wurzberg, Rabbi Yitzchak Dov Bamberger, and son-in-law (by his first marriage) of Rabbi Yaakov Ettlinger, author of the Aruch LaNer. He published his father’s books with his brother Rabbi Shlomo HaLevi Bamberger, Av Beit Din of Senheim.

Rabbi Yitzhak Zekel Bamberger, the regional Rav of Bad-Kisingen, Bavaria, son of Rabbi Simcha (Simon) Bamberger of Ashapenburg, grandson of Rabbi Yitzchak Dov Bamberger of Wurzburg. He married his cousin Gendel (Nannette) Bamberger, the daughter of Moshe Aryeh Leib Bamberger, and granddaughter of Rabbi Yaakov Ettlinger (the Aruch LaNer). Passed away in 1934.