"Yefeh Toar": Prague 5449 [1689] Signature of Rav Shmuel Zammer, Av Beis Din of Papa / Stamp of Rav Yaakov ...

"Yefeh Toar": Prague 5449 [1689] Signature of Rav Shmuel Zammer, Av Beis Din of Papa / Stamp of Rav Yaakov Segal Labuvitch- the Rav of קאפיש

Medrash Raba on Sefer Bereishis with the complete "Yefeh Toar" commentary, by the Gaon Rav Shmuel Yafa Ashkenazi.

On first title page is signature of Rav Shmuel Zammer, Av Beis Din of Papa (5568-5619) Disciple of Rav Tzvi Hirsh Charif and replacement of the "Shaarei Torah" as Rav of Vrbové, at end of life in Papa. He sent letters back and forth with the Chasam Sofer and the Kesav Sofer [אישים בתשובות חתם סופר number 631]. Eulogies of him are found in sefer "Meteh Naftoli" (Pressburg 5623) Discourse 26, and in sefer "Likutei Chever ben Chaim" volume 1 (Pressburg 5638).

On second title page are 2 stamps of Rav Yaakov Segal Leibovitz - the Rav of קאפיש, son-in-law of the Gaon of Makova, Rav Chaim Yehuda Doitsh. He was the Av Beis Din of קאפיש (Hungary). After the Holocaust he was the head of the Orthodox Beis Din in Budapest, which mainly dealt with releasing Agunos (Married women whose husbands perished in the Holocaust, who want to remarry based on some sort of proof of their husbands passing). As he writes in the introduction to his sefer Mishnas Yaakov Responsa: "I was the Rosh Av Beis Din of 'Takanas Agunos' in Hungary from year 5705 until the end of year 5710, and with the help of Heaven there were Heterim of "Iguna D'iteta" and "Igun Habaal", about five thousand, without any mishap, even among one of them".

Lived in the United States during the last (roughly) twenty years of his life, in which he was known as one of the great Poskim. He was one of the heads of "Hisachdus Harabbonim" in the U.S.

Prague 5449 [1689] Second print. Missing first page, last page damaged. At beginning of sefer are two title pages- on both title pages are tears with damage to text. Without binding.