Auction 050 Part 1 Satmar: Rebbes and Rabbis of Satmar-Sighet, Hungary and Transylvania

Collection of Books of the Binyan David – Responsa and Novellae on the Torah by Rabbi David Dov Meisels, Av Beit Din of Ujhel

Opening: $180
Sold for: $250
Including buyer's premium
Three volumes of books by R. David Dov Berish Meisels, Av Beit Din of Ujhel:
* Responsa Binyan David Part I on the four parts of the Shulchan Aruch. Ujhel (Sátoraljaújhely): Deutsch Lajos, 1931. First edition. At the top of the title page is a handwritten dedication [by the author?]: “For our friend the philanthropist R. Aharon Berliner”.
[5], 2-140 pages. Approx. 34 cm.
* Two editions of Binyan David, novellae on the Torah. Part I on Bereshit. First edition before the Holocaust: Ujhel (Sátoraljaújhely): Vajda, 1941. / Facsimile edition printed after the Holocaust (apparently in one of the She’erit HaPletah presses in Germany), by the sons of the author and by R. Yechezkel Rotner, Av Beit Din of Șomcuta Mare.
[5], 2-271, [1] pages. 24 and 21 cm.
Total of three volumes: Overall good to fair-good condition. Stains and wear. Tears and damage (mostly to the third volume). Stamps. New bindings.

The author, R. David Dov Meisels, Av Beit Din of Ujhel (Sátoraljaújhely; 1875-1944; perished in the Holocaust), leading Chassidic rabbi in Hungary. Son-in-law and successor of R. Moshe Yosef Teitelbaum, Av Beit Din of Ujhel (son of the Yitav Lev of Sighet). His wedding took place in 1897 in the court of Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov (the wedding was to have been in Ujhel, but was moved to Bobov after his father-in-law unexpectedly passed away that year). His teachings are collected in: Responsa Binyan David (Ujhel, 1932); Binyan David on the Torah and novellae (Ujhel, 1942); and additional books printed in the United States by his descendants who moved there after the Holocaust (his son R. Tzvi Hirsch Meisels, Av Beit Din of Weitzen, and his grandsons – leaders of the Satmar, Sanz and Bobov communities to this day).

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