Sefer Zohar HaRakia, on the warnings of Rabbi Shlomo Ibn Gvirol, by Rabbi Shimon Bar Tzemach Doran [HaTashbetz]. Vilna, 1879.
Leaf of back cover contains signature of Rabbi"Eliya Katz Doshnitzer". Title-page contains stamp of son-in-law of Rabbi Eliyahu, Rabbi"Gershon Chanoch Fishman", and additional stamp (Rabbi Ziskind Rosenberg slaughterer and examiner of Platzk). Leaf 34 contains handwritten gloss which begins,"In my humble opinion I would interpret¦".
The righteous Rabbi Eliyahu Doshnitzer (1876-1949), student of Telz and Slabodka Yeshivot, was among the most outstanding disciples of the Chafetz Chaim in Kollel Kodshim. [Was among the group sent by the Chafetz Chaim to remove the"dybbuk", and who stated that he is a righteous person]. Following Rabbi Yerucham Leibowitz's departure of the Radin Yeshiva he was appointed as Mashgiach in his place, and from 1926 served as spiritual leader of the Lomza Yeshiva in Petach Tikvah. His lessons were recorded in the book Nachlat Eliyahu, edited by his disciple Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky. At his funeral, the Chazon Ish stated that he was one of the 36 righteous men of the generation.
His son-in-law, the Ga'on Rabbi Chanoch Fishman (1900-1966), Rabbi of Rutki-Kossaki in the region of Lomza. In 1938 he immigrated to Eretz Israel and served as Rabbi of Herzliya for twenty eight years. His erudite books: Simchat HaChag, Mi HaChag, and Sfeika DeRabanan, were recently published in a new edition.
120 pages. 20.5 cm. Good condition, stains. New cardboard binding.