Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Ra'avan with Even Shlomo - Copy of the Author, Rabbi of Shamloy - With Glosses in his Handwriting and Glosses Handwritten by his Son R. Moshe Yehuda Ehrenreich, Rabbi of Sărmășag

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"Sefer Even HaEzer that is Sefer Ha Ra'avan" by Rabbi Eliezer ben Natan of Mainz, with the Even Shlomo commentary by R. Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich, Rabbi of Shamloy (Șimleu Silvaniei). Șimleu Silvaniei, 1926.
On the title page are the signature and ownership inscription of "the small Moshe Yehuda Ehrenreich", who writes that he received the book as "a present from my father, the author, rabbi of Simleu".
Many long, learned glosses, some of them in the handwriting of the author, Rabbi of Simleu, and most of them in the handwriting of his son, R. Moshe Yehuda Ehrenreich; some signed by him.
R. Moshe Yehuda Ehrenreich (perished during the Holocaust, in 1944), rabbi of Sărmășag, was the son and disciple of R. Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich (1863-1944), rabbi of Shamloy (Șimleu Silvaniei). He was the son-in-law of R. Shaul Rosenberg, rabbi of Ratzfert, (Újfehértó) author of "Chemdat Shaul". R. Moshe Yehuda was dayan in Shamloy and later became rabbi of the Shamloy region and of the city Sărmășag. In 1925 he printed Chiddushei HaRashba on Tractate Avoda Zara based on a manuscript from the archives of R. Yisrael Ullman of Grosswardein (Oradea). He and his father were both killed during the Holocaust in 1944.
Incomplete copy: 8, 172 leaves (originally: 8, 329 leaves). 33.5 cm. Good condition. Original binding with leather spine; torn.
Handwritten Glosses
Handwritten Glosses