Collection of Books of the Arugat HaBosem – 1910-1943 – Inscriptions, Signatures and Stamps

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Collection of nine books of R. Moshe Grünwald, Av Beit Din of Khust, author of Arugat HaBosem. Hungary and the region, 1910-1943. Mostly first editions.
* Arugat HaBosem, novellae on the Torah, Part I on Bereshit and Shemot. Khust: Moshe Chaim Weinstein, 1913.
* Responsa Arugat HaBosem, Part I on Orach Chaim. Svaliava: Chaim Yehudah Goldenberg and Yosef Hecht, [1912]. On the title page is a stamp of R. "Yisrael Rosenberg, shochet and posek of Leles".
* Responsa Arugat HaBosem, Part I on Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah. Șimleu Silvaniei: Shlomo HaLevi Heimlich, 1927.
* Responsa Arugat HaBosem, Part II on Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah. Șimleu Silvaniei: Meir Leib Hirsch, 1926. Ownership inscription on title page: "This book belongs to me, Yoel HaLevi Heimlich, here in Pápa…" [apparently R. Yoel HaLevi Heimlich, Av Beit Din of Wegscheid, author of Imrei Yoel, son of R. Menachem Yosef Heimlich, dayan and posek of Miskolc, author of Minchat Yosef].
* Hachanah DeRabbah, ethical will of R. Moshe Grünwald. Sighet: Avraham Kaufman and sons, 1910. First edition.
* Pesach Haggadah with Hallel Nirtzah commentary, by R. Moshe Grünwald, rabbi of Khust, published by his son R. Yekutiel Yehudah Grünwald, rabbi of Yaruha, residing in Ungvár. Beregszász (Berehove): Shmuel Shmelka Klein son of the Rabbi of Selish (Vynohradiv), 1922. First edition: Yaari 1934; Otzar HaHaggadot 2848.
* Arugat HaBosem, comprehensive explanation of the principle Ein Isur Chal Al Isur, with Shaar Avodah SheBaLev – pilpul and aggadic essays by the author, with glosses and notes by R. Moshe Yehudah Katz (son-in-law of the Vayaged Yaakov of Pupa). Budapest: Gewirtz brothers, [1938]. Ownership inscription on endpaper: "Baruch Tzvi HaKohen Moskowitz, Rabbi and yeshiva dean here, Orthodox community of Paks and the region – 5708 [1948]" [R. Baruch Tzvi HaKohen Moskowitz-Rappaport (1907-1990), studied seven years in the Satmar yeshiva under his teacher the Keren LeDavid, traveled to the Ahavat Yisrael in Vizhnitz, to the Minchat Elazar in Munkacs and to Rebbe Aharon of Belz, and was especially close to Rebbe Yoel of Satmar. After the Holocaust, he served as Rabbi of the Orthodox community in Páks, where he established an important yeshiva. Ten years later, in 1957, he was appointed Rosh Av Beit Din of Budapest, and in 1959 he moved to Vienna. During that period he authored and published his important books Tenuvot Baruch, Mishmeret Tzvi and more. In 1981 he moved to the United States and established his Beit Midrash in Brooklyn, "Beit David of Páks". He was known for his greatness in Torah, piety and fear of God. He was a loyal childhood friend of both the Vayechi Yosef of Pupa and the Berach Moshe of Satmar].
* Hanhagot Yesharot – practices "which Rebbe Moshe son of R. Amram Grünwald wrote for himself…". Vranov: Shmuel Singer, [1936].
* Olat Tamid, novellae on Tractate Tamid. Budapest: Meshulam (Zalman) Katz Katzburg, 1943.

9 volumes. Varying size and condition. Overall good condition. New bindings.

R. Moshe son of Amram Grünwald (1853-1910, HaChatam Sofer VeTalmidav p. 521), leading Hungarian rabbi and yeshiva dean. Disciple of R. Menachem Katz Prostitz of Tzelem (Deutschkreutz) and the Ketav Sofer of Pressburg. Already as a young man he managed a yeshiva in his hometown Csorna, and he later served as rabbi in several Hungarian communities. In 1893 he was appointed Av Beit Din of Khust. Although he studied under the Chatam Sofer's pupils, he adopted Chassidic manners and habitually traveled to the Rebbes of Belz and Sighet. In Khust he established an elaborate court and expanded his yeshiva, which became one of the largest and most important in Hungary. Students arrived from inside and outside the country, and many Hungarian rabbis were students of his. He was renowned for his halachic and aggadic works, Arugat HaBosem. His descendants included important rabbinic dynasties, including: his son Rebbe Yaakov Yechizkiyah Grünwald of Pupa; his grandson Rebbe Yosef Grünwald of Pupa, who established the Pupa Chassidic dynasty in the America after the Holocaust; his son R. Avraham Yosef Grünwald (died 1928), Av Beit Din of Makova (Makó), Khust and Ungvár (Uzhhorod); and his son R. Levi Yitzchak Grünwald, Av Beit Din of the Arugat HaBosem community of Tzelem.

Satmar and Hungarian Presses
Satmar and Hungarian Presses