Auction 40 Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Sep 3, 2014 (Your local time)
Israel
 8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.
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LOT 212:

Sefer Imrei Binah – Dedication of the author Rabbi Meir Auerbach Av Beit Din of Kalisz and Jerusalem

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Imrei Binah, Part 1 novellae on Orach Chaim and Yoreh Deah and responsa. Part 2 – novellae on Choshen Mishpat. By Rabbi Meir ben Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Auerbach. Jerusalem, 1871-1876.
On the title-page of the second part is a nice dedication by the author to Rabbi Yehuda Bergman with the stamp bearing the title: "Rabbi of the Ashkenazi Kollel of Jerusalem".
With ownership inscriptions, signatures and stamps of several generations of the Bergman family. Several [varying] ink-stamps containing replica of the signature of Rabbi Yehuda Bergman's brother-in-law Shlomo Zalman Levi.
Rabbi Meir Auerbach (1815-1878), Rabbi of Kalisz and a leading rabbi in his times. In 1859, he moved to Eretz Israel and was the first Rabbi to be officially appointed as Chief Rabbi of the Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem. Besides his well-known erudition in Torah and Halacha, he was also a great Kabbalist, and studied in the Beit El Yeshiva.
Rabbi Yehuda Bergman (d. 1886), son in law of the holy Rabbi Nachum of Szadek received the book. See enclosed material for further information.
Part one: [3], 72; 92, [6] leaves. 35 cm. Very good condition, few age spots. Original worn binding. Part two: [2], 244 leaves. 36 cm. Good condition, spotting, repaired tears around the edges of the title-page. Original worn and torn binding.
S. HaLevi, 166, 268.

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