Auction 12 Part 1 Religious Books, Rabbis Letters, Hassidism, Haggadot, Kabbala, Manuscripts
Jan 24, 2017 (Your local time)
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Babylonian Talmud - Two Unique Books - Piotrkow

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a. Tractate Rosh Hashana. Piotrkow, 1930. Unique edition for students. Extremely rare.
Tractate Rosh Hashana from the Babylonian Talmud - "The topic of Shofar shel olah and the order of shofar blowing with the commentary of Rashi, Tosefot the Maharsha and more. We also printed the laws and order of the shofar blowing at the end." Printing press of Binyamin Liebeskind. (Piotrkow, 193-).
On the cover is printed: "Student's Nameֳƒֲ‚ֳ‚ֲ…". From here we see that these booklets were printed for study by young students! This explains why these booklets are so rare.
The booklet is not listed in the Hebrew Bibliography, and has never appeared at public auction.
It seems that all other known copies of this booklet do not have the aforementioned cover, which reveals the booklet's unique purpose.
On the back of the cover is a list of books published by Liebeskind, among them other booklets such as the one before us, in which other Talmudic topics from the order of Moed were printed.
15x21 cm.
16 pages, not including the cover.
Condition: Good. Aging stains.

b. Mafteach L'Maamarei Halacha V'Maamarei Aggadah. The Daf Yomi. Lodz, 1931-1932. Complete volume.
The volume contains 12 booklets, on the tractates of the order of Moed: Brachot, Shabbat, Eiruvin, Pesachim, Rosh Hashana, Yoma-Shekalim, Succah, Beitza, Ta'anit, Megillah, Moed Katan, Chagigah.
Each booklet has approximately 10-20 pages. Some of them have illustrations and diagrams connected to the tractate.
On the title page of each booklet is a letter of recommendation from the founder of the Daf Yomi, Rabbi Meir Shapira of Lublin: "ֳƒֲ‚ֳ‚ֲ…and this will be of great benefit to the students of the Daf Yomiֳƒֲ‚ֳ‚ֲ…".
At the beginning of each booklet is the introduction of the editor Rabbi Baruch Gelbert, in the introduction to the first booklet, on tractate Brachot, he describes what led him to edit and publish these booklets: "After Rabbi Meir Shapira's proposal was accepted in the World Conference, and it was decided to have that the entire Jewish people would study the same part of the Torahֳƒֲ‚ֳ‚ֲ…one lack was very much felt in the lower echelons, that if a simple Jew learned a section of the Talmud, and after some time he remembered a saying from the Talmud, which he wanted to check and he tries to find it and study it, he flips through the pages of the Talmud and to his great distress cannot find itֳƒֲ‚ֳ‚ֲ…". Therefore, Rabbi Gilbert published these booklets of indexes, for the benefit of one who wants to study the words of the Talmud which he learned in the "Daf Yomi" framework.
In the last booklet, on tractate Chagiga, the author wrote: "I pray that G-d will help me to complete the entire Talmud and then to arrange the general index". However, at the end of the day his wish did not come to fruition.
The booklets are attached together.
Condition: Good-Very Good.

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