. Rare! The Book “Ezrat Nashim” by Rabbi Moshe ben Haviv—first edition, Constantinople, 1731. Pretty copy with ...

. Rare! The Book “Ezrat Nashim” by Rabbi Moshe ben Haviv—first edition, Constantinople, 1731. Pretty copy with important signatures of ownership.
A work on the Shulchan Aruch Even HaEzer, and the pamphlet Shemot Gittin. By Rabbi Moshe ben Haviv, the author of Gett Pashut and Shemot Ba’Aretz. [1], 4, [1], 65, 64 pages. 2 last pages of the first section are mistakenly bound to the end of the book. Old leather binding. Page cuttings are in red. Tear on the cover. A few moth holes, stains, generally good condition. Signatures of ownership of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Babad and his son Rabbi Avraham Moshe Babad, rabbis of Gorahomora in Bukovina (Romania). Rabbi Menachem Mendel Babad, rabbi of Gora-Homoroloy (Bukovina). A descendent of Rabbi Yosef Babad, the Minchas Chinuch, appointed over Chassidei Chortkov, known as a great talmid chacham who was in regular correspondence with greats of his generation. Died in 1930. His son and successor, Rabbi Avraham Moshe Babad (1900-1980) was rabbi and chassidic rosh yeshiva in Bukovina and Israel, a student of the Gaon Rabbi Meir Arik of Tornov. He inherited his father’s position, and after WWII tried to immigrate to Israel but was sent to Cyprus in 1948 by the British, where he served as rabbi of the detention camp. After making it to Israel he was in constant contact with the Chazon Ish. Around 1952 he was appointed for a time as the Rosh Yeshiva of Yechel Yisrael of the Seret-Vizhnitz Chassidic community, led by his son-in-law Admor Rabbi Baruch Hager.