Auction 1
Atika Kadisha - Sefurim and Kisvay Yad
By Atika Kadisha
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Mar 10, 2022
12 Fairway Oval, Spring Valley, NY 10977, United States
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ספרים עתיקים ונדירים יקרי מציאות
ספרים עם חתימות של רבנים ואדמורי"ם
מכתבים של רבנים
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Start price:
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100
Buyer's Premium: 22%
sales tax: 8.875%
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שם משמואל
תולדות הגאון הגדול מהר"ש ענגל זצ"ל אב"ד ראדמישלא
נדפס במונקאטש שנת ת"ש
R. Shmuel Engel, rabbi of Radomyshl (1853-1935), a leading Galician Torah scholar and foremost halachic authority of his generation. A prime disciple of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz and of his son R. Yechezkel Halberstam of Shinova. At the young age of 18, he was appointed rabbi of Biłgoraj (Poland). In 1879, he was compelled to leave Poland, and resided for a couple of years in Rudnik (Galicia) at the home of his friend R. Baruch Halberstam of Gorlitz and together they studied Torah, Halacha and Kabbalah. In 1881, he was appointed Rabbi of Dukla (Galicia) and in ca. 1887, of Radomyshl (Galicia). During WWI, he fled to Waitzen (Vác, Hungary) and in 1918, he wandered further and settled in Kashoi (Košice), were he headed of the Beit Din, remaining there until his passing. His son R. Chaim Engel succeeded him in the Radomyshl rabbinate. R Shmuel Engel authored the eight-book Responsa Maharash series, Chiddushei Maharash on the Talmud, Siftei Maharash on the Torah and more. His biography is printed in the book Shem MiShmuel (Munkacs, 1940).
R. Shmuel Rosenberg author of Be'er Shmuel (1842-1919), foremost Hungarian rabbi and yeshiva dean. He was a leading disciple of the Ketav Sofer. From 1873, he served as rabbi of Tshaba (Hejőcsaba), and in 1883, he was appointed rabbi of Unsdorf, where he founded a large yeshiva, of the most prominent in Hungary and the region. He was renowned for his exceptional devotion to his disciples, and indeed, many of them became the leaders of the next generation (R. Shmuel David Ungar Rabbi of Nitra, and other). He was reputed for his remarkable holiness, and rebbes of the Munkacs dynasty acclaimed him often for his Divine Inspiration. Many turned to him in quest of his blessings or prayers for various matters. He would conduct himself like a rebbe in his yeshiva, leading Tish and distributing shirayim. He fought to preserve faithful Jewry, and stood at the helm of Orthodox Jewry in its battles against the leaders of Reform.
