Auction 8 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

Sha'arei Emet and Beit Aryeh – Signed by Rabbi Azreil Hildesheimer

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Sefer Sha'arei Emet and Sefer Beit Aryeh, by Rabbi Moshe Leib Lyeitsch Rosenbaum. Pressburg (Bratislava)[1866]. Part II Mispar Imrot Tehorot about Mezuzah laws.
On title-page appears a handwritten self-dedication: "Gift from the author, Azriel Hildesheimer" and ink-stamp of the rabbi. On the inner side of the binding Ex-Libris of [his grandson], Rabbi "Azriel Hildesheimer".
Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer (1820-1899) was among the leading Torah authorities of his generation. Disciple of the Aruch LaNer and of Rabbi Yitzchak Bernays of Hamburg. He served as Rabbi of Eisenstadt in years 1851-1869, and during that time established there one of the major Yeshivot of Hungary and Germany. In 1869 he was appointed as Rabbi of Berlin, where he established the Beit Midrash LaRabbanim. He led the Orthodox Jewry of Germany.
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