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Rambam with New Additions – Jerusalem, 1944 – Copies of Rabbi Wozner – With His Handwritten Dedication to Rabbi Abramsky

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Mishneh Torah by the Rambam, with all the commentators and new additions (edited by a committee headed by R. Shmuel HaLevi Wozner) – parts Mada, Ahavah, Zmanim and Nashim. Jerusalem: Pagi by Chorev, 1944-1946. Five volumes, containing all parts printed as part of this edition.
Copies of R. Wozner and R. Abramsky. Stamps of R. Wozner on all volumes (editor of the "new additions" to the edition), from his tenure as Rabbi in Bnei Brak: "Shmuel HaLevi Wozner – Zichron Meir – Rabbi and Posek – Dean of Chachmei Lublin yeshiva". On the endpaper of volume I: dedication from 1949, handwritten and signed by R. Wozner, to R. Daniel[!] Abramsky.


R. Shmuel HaLevi Wosner (1913-2015), author of Shevet HaLevi, disciple of R. Shmuel David Ungar, Rabbi of Nitra and R. Yosef Elimelech Kahana, Rabbi of Ungvár (Uzhhorod; both perished in the Holocaust), and later a close disciple of R. Meir Shapiro at the Chachmei Lublin yeshiva. In 1939, he immigrated to Eretz Israel with his wife. He soon thereafter earned prominence as a leading Torah scholar and was appointed as rabbi and posek of the Geulah neighborhood (during which time he edited the new edition of the Rambam). In 1947, he moved to Bnei Brak to serve as rabbi of the Zichron Meir neighborhood. R. Wosner eventually came to be renowned as a foremost halachic authority acknowledged by all circles.


The recipient of the book, R. Yechezkel Abramsky (1886-1976), chief rabbi of the Beit Din in London, disciple of R. Chaim of Brisk, a leading rabbi of his times in Russia, England and Jerusalem. He authored twenty-five books of Chazon Yechezkel on the Tosefta and more. In 1951 he immigrated from England to Jerusalem, becoming a leader of the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah and other organizations. The present volumes were given to him on his first visit to Eretz Israel in 1949.


Five volumes. Volume I (Sefer HaMada): [6], 2-367; [4], 52, [5] pages. Volume II (Sefer Ahavah): [7], 4-442; [1], 54-110 pages. Volume III (Zemanim, Part I): 4-364, [9]; [1], 4-76, [2], 80-100, [3]; [1], 112-162 pages. Volume IV (Zemanim, Part II): [8], 5-234, [4]; [2], 5-338; [7], 164-228 pages. Volume V (Nashim, Part I): [8], 4-705; [10], 88 pages. 24 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Original bindings, rubbed. Tears to spine of third volume.

Books of Important Ownership – Rabbis' Signatures and Stamps, Glosses and Dedications
Books of Important Ownership – Rabbis' Signatures and Stamps, Glosses and Dedications