Lot 140
Tziluta D'Avraham, Chiddushei Maharma Edited by the Arvei Nachal - Sudylkiv, 1821 - Copy of Rabbi Meir Shapiro of Lublin
Tziluta D'Avraham, called Chiddushei Maharma, novellae on the Talmud, by R. Moshe Avraham Abush. [Sudylkiv, 1811, recte 1821]. Only edition.
The author, R. Moshe Avraham Abush Margolies (1720-1800), brother of R. Meir Margolies, author of Meir Netivim (a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov). an outstanding Torah scholar who served as rabbi of Horodenka and Żabno, People of his generation said in his praise that his perspicacity and erudition were comparable to that of the Shach, and about this book they said that it is "deep like the Maharam Schiff" (see the approbation of R. Moshe HaLevi Horowitz). Rebbe David Shlomo Eybeschutz, author of Arvei Nachal and Levushei Serad, who married the author's granddaughter, copied and edited the book from the autograph manuscript, adding many novellae and explanations of his own.
Copy of R. Meir Shapiro of Lublin, founder of Daf HaYomi and dean of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva. His stamps from the time he was rabbi of Galina (Gliniany), and a stamp from when he was rabbi of Piotrków, appear on the front endpaper, title page and subsequent leaf. Stamps of the library of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva. Two handwritten glosses.
[1], 99 leaves. 31 cm. Bluish paper. Good-fair condition. Stains. Dampstains. Worming to first and last leaves, and to several other leaves, affecting text. Marginal tears to title page and other leaves, repaired with paper, slightly affecting text. Repaired tear to second leaf, affecting text. Inscriptions and stamps. New leather binding.
The chronogram for the year 1811 is erroneous, since the approbations are from 1820 and 1821. In bibliographic listings, the place of printing is recorded as Ostroh, but R. Chaim Lieberman has proved that the book was printed in Sudylkiv (see Ohel Rachel, vol. 1, p. 459).
Stefansky Chassidut, no. 499.
