Ma'ase Rokeach - Venice, 1742 - Copy of Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, Author of Arugot HaBosem

Ma'ase Rokeach, on the Rambam, Part 1 - Mada, Ahava and Zemanim. By Rabbi Masud Chai Rokeach. Venice, [1742]. First edition.
Ancient ownership inscription heading the title page: "Purchased in Pressburg, 1806. Yehuda Leib Segal of Ka[t]onez". On the endpapers are ownership stamps of Rabbi "Moshe son of R' Amram Av Beit Din of Kleinwardein (Kisvárda) and its region", and remnants of wax seals.
The famous Torah scholar Rabbi Moshe Ben-Amram Greenwald (1853-1910, HaChatam Sofer V'Talmidav p. 521), a leading Hungarian rabbi and yeshiva dean. Disciple of Rabbi Menachem Katz Prostitz of Tzehlim and of the Ktav Sofer in Pressburg. Head of yeshiva in Cherna in his youth, he later served in the rabbinate of several Hungarian communities: In 1887, he was appointed Av Beit Din of Kleinwardein and from 1893, Av Bet Din of Chust. Although a disciple of the Chatam Sofer, he adopted Chassidism as his way of life and was accustomed to traveling to the Belz and Siget rebbes. In Chust, he established an elegant court and expanded his yeshiva which eventually became one of the largest yeshivas in Hungary. He was renowned for his halachic and aggadic compositions titled Arugat HaBosem. His son was Rabbi Ya'akov Yechizkiya Greenwald Av Bet Din and Rebbe of Papa and his grandson is Rebbe Yosef Greenwald of Papa, who established the Papa Chassidism in America after the Holocaust.
[7] 286 leaves. 30 cm. Good-fair condition, wear and stains. Dampness damages. Without binding.