Auction 85 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Yakhel Shlomo – Livorno, 1786 – Signatures and Glosses of Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Tzvi Silberstein of Radomsk, Descendant of the Author

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Yakhel Shlomo, on the Torah, Talmud and Rambam, by R. Shlomo Bochner Rabbi of Pintchov (Pińczów). [Livorno, 1786]. Only edition.
The author, R. Shlomo Bochner Rabbi of Pintchov, descendant of the Megaleh Amukot, was a maggid and a scribe for the Council of Four Lands in the Krakow area. He was held in great esteem by leading rabbis of his generation.
This copy is missing the title page. Bound instead is a title page handwritten and signed by R. Avraham Shmuel Tzvi Silberstein of Radomsk, descendant of the author.
Signatures of R. Avraham Shmuel Tzvi Silberstein at the top of the title page and on the two following leaves, in which he expresses his yearning to immigrate to Eretz Israel.
Several glosses (including lengthy glosses) in his handwriting.
R. Avraham Shmuel Tzvi Silberstein (d. 1950), rabbi in Bodzentyn and Wierzbnik, Poland and later in Toronto, Canada, where he served as president of the Vaad HaRabonim. He appears to have fulfilled his aspiration and lived for several years in Jerusalem.
[2], 68 leaves. Title page lacking, replaced in handwriting. 30 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Marginal open tears to several leaves, not affecting text, repaired in part with paper. Without binding.


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