Minchat Yitzchak, First Edition. Author's Copy with Many Handwritten Glosses!

Minchat Yitzchak, First Edition. Author's Copy with Many Handwritten Glosses!

Sefer She'elot U'Teshuvot Minchat Yitzchak [Part I] by the renowned gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Ya'akov Weiss, later ga'ava"d of Jerusalem, in place of the gaon of Satmar. London, 1955.

Author's personal copy - that of the gaon Rabbi Ya'akov Yitzchak Weiss - one of the leading geonim of his generation and one of the golden links in the chain of rabbis in the holy city of Jerusalem. The author wrote glosses in this copy, as can be seen on each and every leaf. Among its sheets, he left about twenty important glosses, including some especially lengthy ones, in his hand. The text in the next edition of Minchat Yitzchak is indeed revised according to these glosses.

The sefer includes the Mikveh Taharah compilation by the same author. Between the leaves of this author's copy, there is a large handwritten page dealing with this precise topic. What was written on this leaf is not printed - the author apparently commented on these matters, yet these comments were not printed.

Important historic item - first copy [author's copy] of the first sefer [out of ten volumes] of the first edition [of many] of Shu"t Minchat Yitzchak, one of the most important sifrei shu"t of all time, and among the most famous of those printed in recent generations. And all across the leaves of this pedigree copy, the sacred author, the ga'ava"d of Jerusalem, to whose geonut and sanctity the entire Torah world subjected itself, left many important glosses in his penmanship.

Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of the gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Ya'akov Weiss, ga'ava"d of Jerusalem.

[4] 279. Thick, high-quality paper.

Fine condition. Dismantled binding.