Auction 61 - Rare and Important Items
Manuscript, Kerem Chemed on the Shulchan Aruch and on the Talmud - Rabbi Yosef of Lomza, Prominent Torah scholar of the Volozhin Yeshiva
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Manuscript, Kerem Chemed, novellae on the four parts of the Shulchan Aruch and Talmudic novellae. Handwritten by the author, R. Yosef son of R. Eliezer Lipman. [Lithuania-Poland, 19th century].
The manuscript contains an introductory leaf signed by the author, followed by novellae on the Shulchan Aruch and Talmudic novellae.
The Talmudic novellae were never printed and they are composed of novellae on Tractate Berachot and on the entire Seder Moed. The novellae on the Shulchan Aruch were printed in the El HaMekorot edition of the Shulchan Aruch (Jerusalem, 1954). This printing was initiated by R. Isser Zalman Meltzer and by R. Zvi Pesach Frank. In the introduction by the person who brought the book to print [R. David Finkel whose wife was a great-granddaughter of the author], he writes: "The author was exceptional for his days and greatly venerated for his Torah knowledge, fear [of G-d], piety and modesty. He studied in the Volozhin Yeshiva and was a disciple of R. Chaim of Volozhin and all his life never ceased to study. He left this manuscript and it was kept for a long time by his son R. Yitzchak David Magen, who devotedly guarded the manuscript during times of emergency and war with the intent of bringing it to print and we now have the merit of publishing it".
In the author's interesting introduction, he writes that his teachings were written after deliberation and not "whatever come to mind at first glance… because this is not that which G-d chooses… All my teachings were weighed and I deliberated 'lest' and 'perhaps' until I have produced a clean edition…".
On the inner side of the binding there are ownership stamps of the author's son, R. "David Magen - Rabbi of Kolonja Synajska".
The author, R. Yosef (Meir) Magen (Applebaum) was a prominent student at the Volozhin Yeshiva (apparently, during the days of R. Itzele of Volozhin). In 1870, his son, the kabbalist R. David Yitzchak Magen (1870-1940), was born in the city of Lomza. He later became Rabbi of Synajska (near Derechin) and moved to Jerusalem in his senior years. R. David Yitzchak was father-in-law of R. Hillel Vitkind and of R. Aharon Weinstein, both founders of the Novardak Yeshiva in Tel Aviv and predecessors of well-known dynasties of heads of yeshivas and Torah teachers of the past generation.
[1], 104, [2] leaves. 32 cm. Approximately 175 written pages, including approximately 62 pages which have never been printed. Thick high-quality paper. Good-fair condition. Worming affecting text. Wear and stains. Worn contemporary binding, with leather spine. Various inscriptions on inner side of binding.
The manuscript contains an introductory leaf signed by the author, followed by novellae on the Shulchan Aruch and Talmudic novellae.
The Talmudic novellae were never printed and they are composed of novellae on Tractate Berachot and on the entire Seder Moed. The novellae on the Shulchan Aruch were printed in the El HaMekorot edition of the Shulchan Aruch (Jerusalem, 1954). This printing was initiated by R. Isser Zalman Meltzer and by R. Zvi Pesach Frank. In the introduction by the person who brought the book to print [R. David Finkel whose wife was a great-granddaughter of the author], he writes: "The author was exceptional for his days and greatly venerated for his Torah knowledge, fear [of G-d], piety and modesty. He studied in the Volozhin Yeshiva and was a disciple of R. Chaim of Volozhin and all his life never ceased to study. He left this manuscript and it was kept for a long time by his son R. Yitzchak David Magen, who devotedly guarded the manuscript during times of emergency and war with the intent of bringing it to print and we now have the merit of publishing it".
In the author's interesting introduction, he writes that his teachings were written after deliberation and not "whatever come to mind at first glance… because this is not that which G-d chooses… All my teachings were weighed and I deliberated 'lest' and 'perhaps' until I have produced a clean edition…".
On the inner side of the binding there are ownership stamps of the author's son, R. "David Magen - Rabbi of Kolonja Synajska".
The author, R. Yosef (Meir) Magen (Applebaum) was a prominent student at the Volozhin Yeshiva (apparently, during the days of R. Itzele of Volozhin). In 1870, his son, the kabbalist R. David Yitzchak Magen (1870-1940), was born in the city of Lomza. He later became Rabbi of Synajska (near Derechin) and moved to Jerusalem in his senior years. R. David Yitzchak was father-in-law of R. Hillel Vitkind and of R. Aharon Weinstein, both founders of the Novardak Yeshiva in Tel Aviv and predecessors of well-known dynasties of heads of yeshivas and Torah teachers of the past generation.
[1], 104, [2] leaves. 32 cm. Approximately 175 written pages, including approximately 62 pages which have never been printed. Thick high-quality paper. Good-fair condition. Worming affecting text. Wear and stains. Worn contemporary binding, with leather spine. Various inscriptions on inner side of binding.