Auction 58 Auction 58 - June 2024
By Tiferet Auctions
Jun 30, 2024
Beit HaDfus 12, B, 4th floor, Jerusalem, Israel

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LOT 50:

Shev Yaakov. Frankfurt Am Main, 1742. First Edition. Important and Noble Exemplar.

Sold for: $320
Start price:
$ 150
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Auction took place on Jun 30, 2024 at Tiferet Auctions
tags: Books

Shev Yaakov. Frankfurt Am Main, 1742. First Edition. Important and Noble Exemplar.
Responsa Shev Yaakov, parts I & II in one volume, by Rabbi Yaakov Katz. Frankfurt am Main, 1742. First edition. Rare. Exemplar of Rabbi Zalmen Sorotzkin.

Responsa Shev Yaakov, part I (Orach Chaim and Yore De’ah) and part II (Even Ha’ezer and Choshen Mishpat) by Rabbi Yaakov ben Binyamin Katz of Prague, Av Beis Din and Ram in Kovlenz and Rabbi in Frankfurt am Main. First edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1742. Rare.

Includes approbations by the Gaon the Pnei Yehoshua and by the Av Beis Din of Tiplitz, Rabbi Avraham Katz, the author’s brother. With stamps of Rabbi ‘Zalmen Sorotzkin Av Beis Din of Lotzk, Jerusalem’, and with a printed dedication by Rabbi Meir Frankel of Frankfurt am Main and Jerusalem, to the Gaon Rabbi Zalmen Sorotzkin ‘for having come to my abode… Jerusalem, Bayit Vagan, 23 Av, 5703 (Aug. 24, 1943).

Please see the Hebrew listing for biographical information on Rabbi Zalmen Sorotzkin.

[1], 109; [1], 139pp. Half-leather binding. Moth holes and stains. Damage to front flyleaf. Fair condition.

Measurement:  32 cm