Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Manuscript of Torah Novellae Written in the Lodz Ghetto by a Student of the Avnei Nezer
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Manuscript, Torah novellae on the Talmud and the Shulchan Aruch, written in the Lodz Ghetto during the Holocaust by R. Shmuel Menachem Leib, a student of the Avnei Nezer. The manuscript includes novellae in the name of the Avnei Nezer, Rebbe Avraham Borenstein of Sochaczew. [Lodz, 1941].
This manuscript was found in the basement of a destroyed home in the Lodz Ghetto after the Holocaust, by Chanoch Lev, son of the author. Chanoch Lev passed the manuscript on to R. Aharon Yisrael Borenstein, youngest son of the Shem MiShmuel and grandson of the Avnei Nezer, in Tel Aviv, who included some of the novellae in his work "Neot Hadeshe" (Tel Aviv 1974). The story of the manuscript is told in the introduction (p. 13). Other sections of the manuscript are included in "Chiddushei Avnei Nezer al HaShas" and the "Nezer Hatorah" anthologies.
The author composed this manuscript while living in the Lodz Ghetto. In many places he quotes and analyzes the words of his teacher, the Avnei Nezer. The manuscript contains Torah novellae written on the eve of Yom Kippur (Sep. 30 1941), as well as novellae regarding the laws of building a sukkah immediately following Yom Kippur, "in order to go from one mitzvah to another". He ends with a particularly poignant prayer "that G-d give me the strength to once again delve into His holy Torah as in the past. My illness is spreading, and my entire being is a prayer to G-d. Erev Yom Kippur 5702 (1941) during the terrible war. May G-d have mercy on his people and save them from their enemies. Shmuel Menachem ben Sara". The author often signed his name at the end of a chapter: "Shmuel Menachem", "Shmuel Menachem ben Yitzchak", "Shmuel Menachem ben Sara may he be healed from his illness". One of the final pages of the manuscript contains an ethical will from the Sfat Emet, "Given to me by my step-grandfather, R. Avraham Yosef Berman".
80 leaves. 20 cm. High-quality paper. Good-fair condition. Stains and wear. Several worn and detached leaves.
Enclosed is an envelope with an inscription handwritten by R. Aharon Borenstein: "Manuscript of Leib of Lodz, who died in the Lodz Ghetto".
This manuscript was found in the basement of a destroyed home in the Lodz Ghetto after the Holocaust, by Chanoch Lev, son of the author. Chanoch Lev passed the manuscript on to R. Aharon Yisrael Borenstein, youngest son of the Shem MiShmuel and grandson of the Avnei Nezer, in Tel Aviv, who included some of the novellae in his work "Neot Hadeshe" (Tel Aviv 1974). The story of the manuscript is told in the introduction (p. 13). Other sections of the manuscript are included in "Chiddushei Avnei Nezer al HaShas" and the "Nezer Hatorah" anthologies.
The author composed this manuscript while living in the Lodz Ghetto. In many places he quotes and analyzes the words of his teacher, the Avnei Nezer. The manuscript contains Torah novellae written on the eve of Yom Kippur (Sep. 30 1941), as well as novellae regarding the laws of building a sukkah immediately following Yom Kippur, "in order to go from one mitzvah to another". He ends with a particularly poignant prayer "that G-d give me the strength to once again delve into His holy Torah as in the past. My illness is spreading, and my entire being is a prayer to G-d. Erev Yom Kippur 5702 (1941) during the terrible war. May G-d have mercy on his people and save them from their enemies. Shmuel Menachem ben Sara". The author often signed his name at the end of a chapter: "Shmuel Menachem", "Shmuel Menachem ben Yitzchak", "Shmuel Menachem ben Sara may he be healed from his illness". One of the final pages of the manuscript contains an ethical will from the Sfat Emet, "Given to me by my step-grandfather, R. Avraham Yosef Berman".
80 leaves. 20 cm. High-quality paper. Good-fair condition. Stains and wear. Several worn and detached leaves.
Enclosed is an envelope with an inscription handwritten by R. Aharon Borenstein: "Manuscript of Leib of Lodz, who died in the Lodz Ghetto".
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