COLLECTION OF RARE BOOKS

COLLECTION OF RARE BOOKS
Six rare books, three of them bound together
A. 'Mate Aharon', Rabbi David Aharon Wishenweitz. Vilna, 1909. First edition.
The author explains the words of the Sages from several tractates, which are incomprehensible and do not make any sense and all the sayings of Rabba Bar Bar Chana. To the book was added an essay that presents evidence from the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmud about the finding of the Ten Lost Tribes.
The title page and the introduction note that the author is from the area of Kaunas and lives sorrowfully alone in Johannesburg, where he arrived to find living as a physician. In his explanations, he actually goes against those who mock the words of the Sages.
94 pp.
Condition: Good. First and last pages detached.
B. 'Zikaron Ba'Sefer', Rabbi Yehoshua Heschel Shatz Zinger, 1900. Single edition.
Commentary on Parashot Ha'Shavu'a and the tractates of the Talmud. At the end of the book appears the chapter 'Imrei Bina' – stories and tales of various rabbis and rebbes as well as the pamphlet 'Yishuv Eretz Yisrael' about the polemic concerning the immigration to Israel.
The author was a rabbi in Buffalo, USA.
Printed by the printing house of the Brother and Widow Re'em.
172 pp.
Condition: Very Good. Tears in single pages. Non-original cover.
C. 'Shemen Sasson, Rabbi Yitzchak Sasson. Vilna, 1859. Single edition.
Commentary on unclear Aggadot of the Talmud, ordered by the tractates.
Rabbi Yitzchak Sasson was one of the greatest rabbis of Horodna.
At the end of the book there is a eulogy for Rabbi Mordechai Zakheim, rabbinical judge of Pinsk.
The first title page is uniquely decorated.
100 pp.
Condition: Good.
D. Three books bound together:
'Halachot Psukot min Ha'Geonim', Yoel Ha'Cohen Miller. Krakow, 1893.
The composition was first published in Constantine in 1516. The edition before us was edited by Rabbi Yoel Ha'Cohen Miller (1827-1895), a rabbi and researcher at the Beit Midrash for Rabbis in Berlin. To this edition, Rabbi Miller added an introduction, comments and key.
It was printed by Rabbi Yitzchak Shlomo Fuchs (1862-1895) who was also a researcher and journalist and who founded (with others) the 'Beit Yisrael' Association for spreading Hebrew and its literature. He published articles in the journal 'Ha'Magid' and also edited it. He was an expert in Medieval Hebrew literature.
Title page in Hebrew and one in German.
102 pp.
Condition: Good. tears at the margins of the first few pages.
'Issur Ve'Heter Ha'Aroch', Rabbi Yonah Ha'Girondi (should be - Ashkenazi). Vilna, 1891.
One of the basic books about the laws of Issur Ve'Heter. 60 chapters on these issues.
The title page notes that this book was attributed by the RAMA to Rabbi Yonah Ha'Girondi of Spain, the student of Rabbi Yisrael Iserline, the author of 'Trumat Deshen'. This is probably a mistake and the book should be attributed to Rabbi Yonah Ashkenazi, son of Rabbi Yisrael of Regensburg, who indeed was the student of Rabbi Iserline.
The edition before us includes for the first time the commentary 'Zer Zahav' by Rabbi Avraha, Moshe Broin of Ponevezh.
Includes agreements of rabbis. among them Rabbi Yosef Zecharya Stern and the ADERET.
292 pp.
Condition: Good. Many pages are worn out at their edges and tend to crimble.
'Mafik Margaliyot', Rabbi Dov Horowitz. Vilna, 1890.
Gematria, explanations of the meanings of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet in the Torah.
agreements of rabbis, among them Rabbi Yitzchak Ya'akov Reines, Rabbi Chaim Berlin, Rabbi Yitzchak Blaser and more.
Second edition. Does not appear in the National Library.
96 pp.
Condition: Very Good.