Auction 85 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Manuscript – Novellae of the Avnei Nezer of Sochatchov – Unpublished Sections

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Manuscript, Torah novellae on various Talmudic topics and halachah by the Avnei Nezer – Rebbe Avraham Borenstein of Sochatchov (Sochaczew), recorded by his disciple.
The present copying was made by R. Avraham Abba Fränkel of Shedlitz (Siedlce; 1872-1961), who studied in the Avnei Nezer's yeshiva for two years.
Most of the novellae in the present manuscript were published in Responsa Avnei Nezer and in the book Eglei Tal, and two sections were published in the Beit Avraham anthology (1-3, 1977), based on the present manuscript.
The manuscript also contains several apparently unpublished sections: pp. [47-56]; p. [75], pp. [146-148, 161-163]; pp. [171-175], and more.
This manuscript was scribed before Avnei Nezer and Eglei Tal were published.
A table of contents appears on the final page. Stamps of the writer R. Avraham Abba Fränkel of Shedlitz on the endpaper and other leaves (in Hebrew and Cyrillic characters). Late handwritten inscriptions, with corrections, sources and notes as to where some sections were printed.
Over 100 written pages (and many blank leaves). 31.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Wear, tears and worming, affecting text in several places. Detached leaves. Original leather binding, damaged, detached and without spine.


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