Eitan HaEzrachi – Ostroh, 1796 – Copy of Rebbe Shalom of Kaminka and of his Grandson, the Rebbe of Oshpitzin ...

Eitan HaEzrachi – Ostroh, 1796 – Copy of Rebbe Shalom of Kaminka and of his Grandson, the Rebbe of Oshpitzin, Son-in-law of the Divrei Chaim
Eitan HaEzrachi, responsa – Volume 1, by Rabbi Avraham HaCohen Rappaport of Lvov. Ostroh, [1796]. One of the approbations is by Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdychiv.
On the last leaf is an ownership inscription: "Belongs to…Shalom HaLevi…", "Belongs to the Rebbe". On the reverse of the title page is a stamp: "Elazar HaLevi Rosenfeld – resides here in Oshpitzin (Oswiecim) – son of the Tsaddik of Kaminka…". Unidentified signature on title page.
Apparently, this copy belonged to the tsaddik Rebbe Shalom of Kaminka and later was passed to his grandson, Rebbe Elazar HaLevi of Oshpitzin.
Rabbi Shalom HaLevi Rosenfeld of Kaminka (1800-1852, Encyclopedia L'Chassidut Vol. 3, pp. 668-671), a leading Chassidic rabbi, close disciple of Rabbi Naftali of Ropczyce, predecessor of the Kaminka dynasty; born in Rava-Ruska (today in Ukraine). According to Chassidic tradition, his soul is that of the Vilna Gaon (who died shortly before Rabbi Shalom's birth), and he said about himself that his was the soul of the Tana'im.
In his youth, he studied Torah from Rabbi Zvi Hirsh Charif and from Rabbi Shlomo Kluger who lived in Rava-Ruska. Later, he learned from great Galician rabbis such as Rabbi Yitzchak Shmelkish Av Beit Din of Lvov (author of Beit Yitzchak), Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Turker "the Gaon of Domvrova", etc. At the age of 9, he already completed the whole Talmud and was known as an incredible prodigy. People relate that Rabbi Efraim Zalman Margaliot met him and amazed at his genius said: "I was also a genius in my youth, but such a prodigy I have never seen". In his youth, his father took him to tsaddikim and he visited the Chozeh of Lublin who described the child as the "chacham of the generation" and even invited him to eat with him from his plate. Afterward, he became the devoted disciple of Rabbi Naftali of Ropczyce, and was one of his two leading disciples, together with his friend Rebbe Chaim Halberstam, author of Divrei Chaim of Sanz. After the death of Rabbi Naftali of Ropczyce, he used to travel to the tsaddikim of his generation including Rabbi Shalom of Belz, Rabbi Zvi Hirsh of Zhydachiv, Rabbi Zvi Hirsh of Romaniv, Rabbi Yisrael of Ruzhyn, Rabbi Zvi Elimelech Shapira of Dynów, etc.
He first served as Rabbi of Yaryshev and in 1837 moved to Kaminka. He refused to become a Rebbe but was renowned as a tsaddik and as a wonder-worker. He was the forebear of a long line of Kaminka Rebbes. He refused to print his novellae and burned his writings saying: “I know in advance the books which will be written before the coming of the Messiah and I do not want mine to be together with them in the same bookcase…”. Only in the last generation, remnants of his Torah writings were printed in the book Ohev Shalom (Brooklyn, 2006).
His grandson, Rebbe Elazar Halevi Rosenfeld (1861-1943), youngest son-in-law of Rebbe author of Divrei Chaim of Sanz and son of Rebbe Yehoshua of Kaminka (son of Rabbi Shalom of Kaminka), from 1885 served as rabbi of Bochnia. In 1897 he succeeded his father as Rebbe of Kaminka and in 1900 served as Rabbi and Rebbe in Oshpitzin (Oswiecim). In 1936, he immigrated to Eretz Israel and established his Beit Midrash in Jerusalem. Just before the outbreak of World War II, he returned to Poland and perished in Sosnowiec Ghetto.
[2], 36, 38-39, 41 [should be: 42]-44, [1], 45-64, 63-72, [2], 71-96, 99-100 leaves (mispagination). Missing: Leaf 96. Leaves 40-41 are missing and replaced with handwritten leaves. 31 cm. Fair condition, tears to title page and several other places, worming and wear. Stains. Non-contemporary binding.