Autographic Manuscript – Metek Sefatayim by Rabbi Avraham Avli Yaffe Av Beit Din of Panevėžys – Handwriting and ...

Autographic Manuscript – Metek Sefatayim by Rabbi Avraham Avli Yaffe Av Beit Din of Panevėžys – Handwriting and Signature of Rabbi Zundel of Salant
Manuscript, Metek Sefatayim, novellae and commentary on Tractate Shabbat, by Rabbi Avraham Avli Yaffe. Viekšniai, 1782-1787.
Complete volume. Illustrated title page. Autographic handwriting by the author, arranged in two columns [with additions on margins of some pages]. The book was written during 1782-1787: on the title page appears the year 1882 and at the end of the volume is the author's stamp (Leaf 122/2), "By the author…Avraham ben Rabbi Israel Yaffe in the city of Viekšniai and its region". At the omissions at the end of the volume, the author mentions the "Homiletics of Parshat VaYakhel of 1787 and the "Homiletics of Parshat VaYakhel of 1788".
At the beginning of the manuscript are two added leaves with novellae on various topics, signed by the author, with dates: Chol HaMo'ed Pesach 1786; the 9th of Av 1890; "This I have delivered on Shabbat Teshuva 1791". Leaves 90-91 have sketches of the boards of the Mishkan (Shabbat Leaf 98).
The title page and other leaves have stamps: "Beit Midrash Menachem Zion in the Churva of Rabbi Y. HaChassid", whose library was managed by Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant. A long inscription on the title page in the handwriting of Rabbi Zundel. "These books given to Rabbi…Shabtai Rabbi of Viekšniai, as a contribution to the Midrash Menachem Zion… Jerusalem, Zundel of Salant". [Some leaves have other inscriptions in his handwriting: "To Midrash Menachem Zion"]. Other ownership inscriptions by the author's family.
Rabbi Avraham Avli Yaffe (died 1820), a Lithuanian Torah genius. Born to his father Rabbi Israel Yaffe Av Beit Din of Joniškis descendant of the author of HaLevushim. After his father's death, his mother moved to New Žagarė [in this book, he writes of his father's writings burnt in the big fire that broke out in this community], and there he began to write this work [on Leaf 92/2, he writes: "Until here I wrote when living with my mother and from here on I wrote here in the community of Viekšniai in 1785]. Served as Rabbi of Viekšniai and its region. Afterward, appointed as Rabbi of Panevėžys and the first rabbi in the history of this important city where famous leading Lithuanian rabbis served. [For more information see enclosed material]. After his death, the manuscript passed on to his son Shabtai Yaffe Rabbi of Viekšniai, who ascended to Eretz Israel and placed it for safekeeping in the Menachem Zion Beit Midrash in the Churva of Rabbi Yehuda HaChassid in Jerusalem. The work was printed according to this manuscript in 1997.
[3], 144, [3] leaves. 31 cm. Good condition. The title page is pasted on paper for reinforcement. Stains, minor wear, moth marks. Worn binding.