Volume with three works from Polish printings: Shvil HaMidrash Raba, Recanati, and more. 1912-24. Copy with yichus.

Volume with three works from Polish printings: Shvil HaMidrash Raba, Recanati, and more. 1912-24. Copy with yichus.

1. Sefer Shvil HaMidrash Raba, an index of maamarei Midrash Rabba organized by subject, by Rabbi Yeshayahu Menachem Mendel Eisenschmidt, a Shoel u’bodek in Lodz. Approbations of the Admor of Ostrovtza and Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim Maisel of Lodz. Printed in Pietrekov. The first title page has the year of printing as 1912, while the second has a note calculating 1905. The National Library regards this as a second edition which included the first edition’s title page. 168 pages. Published by Rabbi Yaakov Leiner of Radzin, a motz in Lodz.

2. Recanati, “piskei halachot from the kabbalist Rabbi Menachem of Recanati…with the addition of 24 takkanot from a booklet of the four lands of Poland.” Printed in Warsaw, no year noted on the title page. Libraries estimate it to be around 1913. 36 leaves.

3. Arbaa Metivei Lechet: 1. Divrei Kevushin by Rabbi Eliezer Azkari; 2. Brechat Avraham by Rabbi Avraham Azoulay; 3. Derech Chochmah; 4. Derech Etz Chaim by the Ramchal. Printed in Lodz 1924. 28 leaves. Published by Rabbi Yaakov Leiner of Radzin, motz in Lodz.

Stains, not checked thoroughly, overall good condition.

The title page of Shvil HaMidrash Raba has a note of ownership of Rabbi Zeev Wolff HaLevi Tirnoar, son-in-law of the Admor Rabbi Moshe Meir Leifer of Nadvorna Bonia.

Gaon Rabbi Zeev Wolf HaLevi Tirnoar (1879 or 1882-1959) was rabbi of Lespezi, Shamkot, Sochava, and Paltichen, author of 39 Orot, on halachot of Shabbat. Student of Rav Yehuda Greenwald, the Ra’avad of Satmar, and Rav Moshe Greenwald, rabbi of Khust and author of Arugot HaBosem. Would travel to the tzaddikim of the generation, like Rabbi Issachar Dov Rokach of Belz, Rabbi Yisrael Zvi Rotenburg of Cassani, Rabbi Yisrael Hagar of Vizhnitz (lived the last few years of his life in Grosvradin). At the end of his life he moved to Israel and lived in Tzfat, where he served as rabbi of the She’erit HaPlita synagogue. Was father-in-law of Rabbi Aharon Yehiel Leifer, the Rebbe of Nadvorna-Banya-Tzfat. Famous as a miracle worker.

There is a story about him from when he was rabbi in Sochava: there was a drought and he gathered a minyan and organized a prayer for rain, while everyone was wearing their tallitot and tefillin. A short time later the rain began to fall, surprising the Jews and the goyim, who immediately thanked him and gave him gifts. He wrote Tal Orot on halachot of Shabbat (two sections), Shut Agudat Ezov on the Four Sections of the Shulchan Aruch, Tal Torah on the Torah and moadim, Chiddushim on the Shas and the Mishnah Torah by the Rambam.