Shulchan Aruch Even HaEzer - Signatures and Glosses - Signatures of Rabbi Shmuel Zvi Weiss Ra'avad of Mukacheve ...

Shulchan Aruch Even HaEzer - Signatures and Glosses - Signatures of Rabbi Shmuel Zvi Weiss Ra'avad of Mukacheve, Father of the Rebbe Author of Imrei Yosef of Spinka - Signatures of the Sons of the Machane Chaim, Rabbi Ya'akov Shalom Sofer of Budapest
Shulchan Aruch, Even HaEzer, Part 2. Contains Pitchei Teshuva by Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Eisenstadt, Av Beit Din of Utena. [Johannesburg, Prussia, ca. 1861 - first edition of Pitchei Teshuva].
Many signatures and a few glosses in various Ashkenazi handwritings:
An ownership inscription, "Shmuel Zvi Weiss of Mukacheve", appears on the title page. Before the title page is another signature of Rabbi "Shmuel Zvi Weiss" and several signatures of Rabbi "Ya'akov Shalom BeHagaon Maharchas" and Rabbi "Moshe David Sofer son of R' Chaim - Av Beit Din of Szászrégen". Stamps of Rabbi "Yisrael Freund Av Beit Din of Szászrégen" (son-in-law of Rabbi Moshe David Sofer), and several handwritten glosses, [apparently by rabbis of the Fruend family].
Rabbi Shmuel Zvi Weiss (died 1879), was the son and successor of Rabbi Avraham Weiss, Ra'avad of Mukacheve. Disciple of Rebbe Yehuda Zvi of Rozdil, Rabbi Shalom of Belz, the Mahari of Zhydachiv and the author of Bnei Yissaschar. His teacher, Rebbe Zvi Elimelech of Dynow, author of Bnei Yissaschar, arranged the Kiddushin at his wedding in 1834 and after the chuppah he said: "If I had only come here to perform this one service, it would have sufficed'. At the end of his days, Rabbi Shmuel Zvi told his son, the author of Imrei Yosef of Spinka, that he does not know what the holy rabbi of Dinow meant by saying this, but possibly he was referring to you…' (A. Surasky, Shushelet Spinka, p. 28). In 1842, his father Rabbi Avraham immigrated to Tiberias in Eretz Israel and Rabbi Shmuel Zvi was appointed Av Beit Din of Mukacheve in his father's stead. The fact that his teacher Rebbe Yehuda Zvi of Rozdil requested him to copy and edit his deep Kabbalistic composition Da'at Kedoshim, which is a summary of his Chassidic code, portrays Rabbi Shmuel Zvi's proficiency in Kabbalah. "And it is therefore clear that he was erudite in the writings of the Arizal, because without this, he would not have been able to copy such a deep book". (Shushelet Spinka, p. 29). In his introduction to the book Beit Yitzchak on the Torah, authored by his brother the Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac of Szolyva, he writes that Rebbe Itzikel of Zidichov infused Rabbi Shmuel Zvi with his powers to work wonders. During the whole time that Rabbi Shmuel Zvi lived in Mukacheve, Chassidim and admirers gathered around him. On Shabbat they would come to his home while he was sitting at his table and they would sing and praise G-d together with him. In spite of this, he shied away from signs of honor and refused to wear a rebbe's garment. His sons were famous rabbis, leading Torah scholars and Chassidic leaders. The most renowned among them is Rebbe Yosef Meir Weiss, author of Imrei Yosef, predecessor of the Spinka rebbe dynasty (see previous item).
Rabbi Ya'akov Shalom Sofer (1855-1921), a rabbi in Budapest, author of the five volumes of Torat Chaim [Av Beit Din of Uzhhorod (Ungvár) and Budapest, disciple of the Chatam Sofer]. His brother Rabbi Moshe David Sofer (ca. 1860-1906), the fourth son of the Machane Chaim and son-in-law of Rabbi Hillel Pollack, Av Beit Din of Szászrégen, succeeded his father-in-law in the Szászrégen rabbinate. After his death, he was succeeded by his son-in-law Rabbi Yisrael Freund, Av Beit Din of Szászrégen.
[4], 316, [3] leaves. 21 cm. Fair condition. Wear and worming. Detached leaves. Unbound.