Auction 76 - The Gaon of Vilna and his Disciples: Books and Manuscripts from the Yeshayahu Vinograd Collection
Aliyot Eliyahu – Signatures of Rabbi Itche Grodzinski, "the Tzaddik of Warsaw" – Copy Passed down to His Son Rabbi Moshe Grodzinski and His Grandson Rabbi Avraham Pinchas Grodzinski
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Aliyot Eliyahu, biography of the Gaon of Vilna, by R. Yehoshua Heshel Levin. Warsaw, 1901.
Copy of R. Yitzchak (Itche) Grodzinski – "the Tzaddik of Warsaw", inherited by his son R. Moshe Grodzinski and grandson R. Avraham Pinchas Grodzinski.
Signatures of R. Itche Grodzinski on the front endpaper and title page: " Yitzchak son of R. Ze'ev", " Yitzchak Grodzinski". Inscription on title page: "…R. Moshe Grodzinski" (son of R. Itche), signed: "A.P.G." [=Avraham Pinchas Grodzinski, son of R. Moshe]. The signature "A.P.G." appears on the front endpaper as well.
R. Yitzchak (Itche) Grodzinski, "the Tzaddik of Warsaw" (d. 1921), outstanding Torah scholar, dean of the Torat Chaim yeshiva in Warsaw. A leading Torah disseminator, he toiled to strengthen Torah observance in Warsaw ("pillar of Torah and Chessed in Warsaw and the surroundings", as his colleague the Chafetz Chaim described him in Yad Yosef, Pirkei Chaim, pp. 419-420). Whenever the Chafetz Chaim would visit Warsaw, he would stay in the home of R. Itche, who was his friend and confidant, and they worked together to strengthen Torah study and Mitzvah observance in the cities of Poland. When R. Itche passed away, the Chafetz Chaim travelled from Radin to Warsaw to attend his funeral and eulogize him, despite his old age. One of his sons was R. Avraham Grodzinski, mashgiach in the Slabodka yeshiva in Lithuania (1822-1944; perished in the Holocaust), author of Torat Avraham.
His son, R. Moshe Grodzinski (1875-1929) – owner of this book, was a disciple of the Chafetz Chaim in the Radin yeshiva. Served as mashgiach in the Torat Chaim yeshiva in Warsaw. He immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1924 and was murdered in the Hebron massacre in 1929. His illustrious son-in-law was R. Yaakov Neiman (ca. 1886-1983), dean of the Or Yisrael yeshiva in Lida and Petach Tikva.
The son of R. Moshe – whose signature (initials) appears in this book, was R. Avraham Pinchas Grodzinski, author of MiBeit Avraham (ca. 1900-1984), a prominent student of the Slabodka yeshiva in Lithuania and Hebron. Disciple of the Alter of Slabodka and close disciple of his uncle R. Avraham Grodzinski.
[1], 2-48 leaves. 22 cm. Fair-good condition. Dry and browned paper. Stains. Tears and minor worming (long tear on leaf 34). Printing defect on leaf 2. Front board and several leaves detached. Original binding, damaged.
Vinograd, Thesaurus of the Books of the Vilna Gaon, no. 1001.
Provenance: The Yeshayahu Vinograd Collection, Jerusalem.
Copy of R. Yitzchak (Itche) Grodzinski – "the Tzaddik of Warsaw", inherited by his son R. Moshe Grodzinski and grandson R. Avraham Pinchas Grodzinski.
Signatures of R. Itche Grodzinski on the front endpaper and title page: " Yitzchak son of R. Ze'ev", " Yitzchak Grodzinski". Inscription on title page: "…R. Moshe Grodzinski" (son of R. Itche), signed: "A.P.G." [=Avraham Pinchas Grodzinski, son of R. Moshe]. The signature "A.P.G." appears on the front endpaper as well.
R. Yitzchak (Itche) Grodzinski, "the Tzaddik of Warsaw" (d. 1921), outstanding Torah scholar, dean of the Torat Chaim yeshiva in Warsaw. A leading Torah disseminator, he toiled to strengthen Torah observance in Warsaw ("pillar of Torah and Chessed in Warsaw and the surroundings", as his colleague the Chafetz Chaim described him in Yad Yosef, Pirkei Chaim, pp. 419-420). Whenever the Chafetz Chaim would visit Warsaw, he would stay in the home of R. Itche, who was his friend and confidant, and they worked together to strengthen Torah study and Mitzvah observance in the cities of Poland. When R. Itche passed away, the Chafetz Chaim travelled from Radin to Warsaw to attend his funeral and eulogize him, despite his old age. One of his sons was R. Avraham Grodzinski, mashgiach in the Slabodka yeshiva in Lithuania (1822-1944; perished in the Holocaust), author of Torat Avraham.
His son, R. Moshe Grodzinski (1875-1929) – owner of this book, was a disciple of the Chafetz Chaim in the Radin yeshiva. Served as mashgiach in the Torat Chaim yeshiva in Warsaw. He immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1924 and was murdered in the Hebron massacre in 1929. His illustrious son-in-law was R. Yaakov Neiman (ca. 1886-1983), dean of the Or Yisrael yeshiva in Lida and Petach Tikva.
The son of R. Moshe – whose signature (initials) appears in this book, was R. Avraham Pinchas Grodzinski, author of MiBeit Avraham (ca. 1900-1984), a prominent student of the Slabodka yeshiva in Lithuania and Hebron. Disciple of the Alter of Slabodka and close disciple of his uncle R. Avraham Grodzinski.
[1], 2-48 leaves. 22 cm. Fair-good condition. Dry and browned paper. Stains. Tears and minor worming (long tear on leaf 34). Printing defect on leaf 2. Front board and several leaves detached. Original binding, damaged.
Vinograd, Thesaurus of the Books of the Vilna Gaon, no. 1001.
Provenance: The Yeshayahu Vinograd Collection, Jerusalem.
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Books with Glosses, Signatures and Dedications