Lot 397
Set of Chumashim ‘Ein HaSofer’ – Roedelheim, 1818-1821 – Signatures of Rabbi Moshe Nowe-Miasto-Hamburger Disciple of the Chatam Sofer
Chumash Ein HaSofer, "To assist the scribe and 'tikkun vavei ha'amudin'". Rabbi Wolf Heidenheim. Five volume set [Bereshit-Devarim]. Roedelheim, 1818-1821.
Exact chumash with lists of the mesorah and ta'amim, articles about grammar and guidelines for writing a Torah scroll. At the end of each volume is Seder HaHaftarot, piyutim and yotzrot for Shabbatot and festivals. Shabbat prayers appear at the end of the fifth volume [the rest of the volumes have just the piyutim without the prayers].
Signatures and stamps: "Moshe Segal of Ir Chadash"; "Moshe Segal Nowe-Miasto" – Rabbi Moshe Segal Hamburger (1801-1848), native of Ir Chadash (Nowe-Miasto), disciple of the Chatam Sofer of Pressburg. The Chatam Sofer used to call his disciples according to their cities, and he called Rabbi Moshe "Moshe Ir Chadash". Since then for the rest of his life, Rabbi Moshe used the name his rabbi called him. He immigrated with the disciples of the Chatam Sofer to Eretz Yisrael and was a prominent figure in the "old yishuv" of Jerusalem. His life history was written in the book ‘Shlosha Olamot’ Jerusalem 1939 [see attached material].
Volume 1: VI pages; [1], 28, 31-64; 41-58 leaves (missing: 3 leaves). Volume 2: [1], 65-119, [8]; 28; 46-78 leaves. Volume 3: 45-76, 81-102 leaves (missing: 4 leaves). Volume 4: [1], 159-215, [2]; 16; 45-56 leaves. Volume 5: [1], 216-266; 18; 60 leaves. 16 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, moth damage, coarse tears to several pages. Fine new leather bindings.
