Elucidations on the Torah Portions. Pressburg, 1894. Disciple of the Shevet Sofer

Elucidations on the Torah Portions. Pressburg, 1894. Disciple of the Shevet Sofer

Compilation of novellae and elucidations on the Torah portions and more, in the hand of Rabbi Avraham Yehudah Segal Kellner, disciple of the Shevet Sofer. Pressburg [1894-1895]

In his novellae, he cites the Mahar"i Assad, the Mahara"m Schick and other rabbinic leaders of Hungary. He also quotes sayings in the names of his teachers: The Shevet Sofer; Rabbi David Neiman, Ra"avad of Pressburg and Rabbi Yisrael Yosef Deutch, Av Beit Din of Yarmut, son of the gaon, the author of Goren David. At the end of the compilation, there is a eulogy for a youth from the Pressburg yeshivah who passed away in 1895.

Rabbi Avraham Yehudah Segal Kellner was born in 1870 in Pressburg. After his marriage, he ascended to Jerusalem and served there as head of Shomrei HaChomot. [HeChata"m Sofer V'Talmidav p. 555].

There is a leaf written on both sides included. It was written in Jerusalem in 1879 on the subject of the great controversy in Jerusalem regarding the ruling of a convert who underwent a ritual circumcision but not a ritual immersion. One of the Jerusalem sages ordered him to perform melachah on Shabbat so that he would not become a gentile who observed Shabbat, which is a capital offense. At the beginning, the writer notes, "and the next day, the whole city was roiling about this, as written in Divrei Yosef by the gaon Rabbi Yosef Schwartz ztz"l, and I wrote to him about the aforementioned topic in 1864, and I added some words just now."

[31] pp. 21x17 cm.

Not bound, fine condition.