Pnei Yehoshua - the copy of Rabbi Moshe Dov Wallner

Pnei Yehoshua - the copy of Rabbi Moshe Dov Wallner

Pnei Yehoshua on seder Moed and Nashim Two Volumes, Warsaw [1861] Warsaw [1873]. A copy of the genius Rabbi Moshe Dov Wallner of Budapest. In both volumes on the title pages and the protective page his ink stamp as the "head of the Holy Community of Budapest".

The Genius Rabbi Moshe Dov Wallner [1912-2007] was born in Hungary in 1912 to Rabbi Zvi Yehuda and Rachel Wallner. He studied for eight years with Rabbi Dov Levlowitz the Rabbi of Kishkarsh , the "Divuvey hen", and has been ordained by him. Before his passing, Rabbi Lavlovich wrote of him: "I am assured that you will be Ilna Rabba in Israel, and you will be able to teach the Torah in greater value than I have won". He then studied with Rabbi Yosef Elimelech Kahana, Av Beit Din of Ungvar and Tzeilim. Then went to study at the Yeshiva Pressburg with Rabbi Akiva Sofer, where he also learned from his son Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer, author of "Hashav Sofer" and more. He was also ordained by Rabbi of Oihel, Rabbi David Dov Mayzlish and appointed as a Dayan in the Beit din of Rabbi Isaiah Kalish. In the year 1936, he married Miriam, daughter of Rabbi Yisrael Welch Rabbi of Pest, and moved to live near his father-in-law in Budapest. In Budapest he served as the community rabbi for about 15 years, until the beginning of the Holocaust of Hungarian Jews. He stayed in several concentration and extermination camps, and was almost the only one from the family that survive the Holocaust. After the Holocaust, he met his wife, daughters, and son-in-law, Joined to father-in-law under the leadership of the Budapest community remnants and the management of a special beit din of Agunot that he founded in the city.

In the year 1951, he immigrated to Eretz Yisrael and served as Rabbi of Shapir settlement who was inhabited by many religious immigrants from Hungary. On his arrival in Israel he approached a number of admorim, including Rabbi Aharon Rokach, Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam of Clausenburg and Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Lifshitz Halberstam of Stropkov. 

Two Vol. In order of Moed some of the pages are detached, tears on spine, worn cover. In a volume of Nashim wear and tear on binding and tears on spine. The pages in both volumes are in good condition.