Passover Haggadah with the Shabcha D'Mara Commentary, Lemberg 1880, Rabbi Moshe Yehudah Katz's Copy And of the ...

Passover Haggadah with the Shabcha D'Mara Commentary, Lemberg 1880, Rabbi Moshe Yehudah Katz's Copy And of the Admor of Strapkow

Passover Haggadah with the Shabcha D'Mara commentary by Rabbi Meshulam Yissachar son of Rabbi Aryeh Leibush. On the title page, there is the owner's stamp of the gaon Rabbi Moshe Yehudah Katz, author of the famous Chassidic commentary on the haggadah, VaYaged Moshe.

The Gaon Rabbi Moshe Yehudah was born on 10 Sivan 1907, and was killed in Auschwitz on 27 Sivan 1944. The gaon was the grandson and disciple of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich, may Hash-m avenge his blood, Av Beit Din of Shamloy. When he was still an avreich supported by his father-in-law, he studied day and night to an extraordinary degree. He was a tremendous genius, a treasure-house bursting with Torah and Chassidut. While yet a youth, he earned rabbinical ordination from six rabbinical leaders: the gaon R' Shmuel Engel of Radomyśl, ztz"l, the gaon R' Yeshayahu Zilberstein of Waitzen, ztz"l, the gaon R' Mordechai Leib Winkler of Mád, ztz"l, the gaon R' Shimon Greenfeld of Bűdszentmihály, ztz"l, and from his grandfather, the gaon Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich of Shamloy, ztz"l, may Hash-m avenge his blood. And after he married, he received ordination from the rabbi, the great gaon R' Shabtai Sheftel Weiss, ztz"l, Av Beit Din of Nagysimonyi. He authored wondrous, sharp novellae on all Torah subjects, including a large composition on Talmudic topics, a composition on the four parts of the Shulchan Aruch, responsa, works on kabbalah and aggaddah and on the 613 mitzvahs. His grandfather-in-law's book Arugat HaBosem al Issur chal al Issur with glosses by Rabbi Moshe Yehudah Katz, was published in 1938. Most of his writings were burned by the Nazis; only a few survived and were found by his brother, Rabbi Yehoshua Katz, when he returned from the labor camp after the terrible war.

There is an additional owner's stamp - that of the Admor of Stropkov - on the title page.

Unbound. Worming holes, moderate condition.