Responsa Tov Ayin, by R. Chaim Yosef David Azulai - the Chida. Husiatyn, 1904.
Copy belonging to R. Chaim Yaakov Safrin, Rebbe of Komarno, with his signatures and stamps on the title page and front endpapers ("Chaim Yaakov Safrin, grandson of the great Rebbe, may his memory protect us, currently residing in Ungvar", and other signatures). Listings of names for prayer. Further ownership inscription and stamp of R. Moshe Aryeh Rosenberg, rabbi of Radvanka. Two handwritten corrections.
R. Chaim Ya'akov Safrin (1892-1967), son of Rebbe Avraham Mordechai Safrin of Boryslav-Komarno. He served as Rebbe in the city of Ungvar, (Uzhhorod) until 1937, when he immigrated to the United States. He was known as one of the leading Chassidic rebbes in New York until he moved to Jerusalem in 1962. He was an outstanding Torah scholar, Kabbalist and holy man. He wrote some 40 manuscripts, of which only four were printed: Beit Ya'akov, Beit Avot, Ma Zot and Shabbat Shalom U'Mevorach.
[2], 65 leaves (the last leaf, 66, is torn and mostly missing). 20 cm. Fair condition. Brittle, fragile paper. Stains, wear and tears. Several detached pages. Damaged and detached binding.

Long autograph letter (7 pages) signed by Rabbi Mordechai of Chechelnyk, Rabbi of Berdychiv, to R. Efraim Zalman Margaliot of Brody. Berdychiv, [c. 1810s]. The margins of the first leaf bear the signature of the recipient, R. "Efraim Zalman".
Halachic responsum on the laws of "petzu'a daka". The writer opens the responsum writing that this same question was posed to R. Yosef HaCohen of Khmelnik (Chmielnik) who responded with a "heter", but unwilling to rely on his ruling alone, R. Yosef sent the query to "the famous… R. Eliyahu HaCohen R. of Berdychiv and requested that this venerable rabbi study this abstruse matter…". The responsum is signed by "Mordechai son of R. Zvi Hirsh of Berdychiv".
A response to this question appears in the Beit Efraim responsa, Even HaEzer Siman 2: "I have been asked by an exceptional Torah scholar…". [A different responsum appears in Siman 133, addressed to R. Mordechai of Chechelnyk with lofty titles of reverence and esteem].
R. Mordechai (Mottel) of Chechelnyk served as dayan, posek and rabbi in Berdychiv during ca. 1805-1840. Before this tenure, he served as member of the Chechelnyk Beit Din headed by his teacher R. Moshe Zvi of Savran and was counted among the greatest Torah scholars of his times. He exchanged halachic responsa with R. Yosef Landau R. of Iasi, with R. Ya'akov of Smila [disciple of the Magid of Mezeritch], R. Efraim Zalman Margaliot, and others. His fame as a posek endured during the following generations as well [see the venerable titles bestowed on him in the responsa by the Mahariz Enzil Siman 52]. He was also one of the initiators of the Berdychiv printing of the Rambam. His approbations were printed at the beginning of the Slavita Talmud (1835) and in various books printed in Ostroh from 1818-1819.
Rabbi Efraim Zalman Margaliot of Brody (1761-1828), author of Beit Efraim and Mateh Efraim was a famous Torah scholar, renowned throughout the Diaspora as a leading posek who corresponded with many contemporary sages. He lived in the times of the Netivot HaMishpat and the Ketzot HaChoshen. In his younger years, he served a short stint in the rabbinate of Uhniv after which he moved to Brody. There he did not accept a rabbinical position since he was blessed with extreme wealth. His books of responsa and halacha became basic books of halachic rulings and were noted already in his lifetime. The Chatam Sofer eulogized him: "Every day his teachings from the books he wrote resound in our Beit Midrash" (Ishim B'Teshuvot Chatam Sofer, pp. 79-81).
[7] written pages, 22 cm. High-quality bluish paper. Good condition. Stains.
Enclosed is an expert's letter of authorization detailing the content of the responsum and containing identification of the signature of R. Efraim Zalman Margaliot. Also enclosed is a detailed article about the life of R. Mottel of Berdychiv.

Manuscript (6 pages), a long halachic responsum on the laws of an agunah, handwritten (unsigned) by R. Menachem Mendel Paneth, Rabbi of Dej. Urisor, [1854].
Autograph writing of R. M. M. Paneth. Deliberation surrounding an agunah from Hidalmás, whose husband travelled to Grosswardein (Nagy-Varad) and disappeared. The matter pertains to the investigation of the (tentative) testimony from the summer of 1853 attesting that someone found the body of the deceased floating in the waters of the river near the city of Telega, near Grosswardein. The responsum contains protocols of the testimony in Hebrew and in Yiddish. The Grosswardein rabbis who deliberated this issue with R. Paneth are mentioned in the manuscript, "R. Dayan Mordechai of Grosswardein [R. Mordechai Aryeh Leib Stein (died 1861), disciple of the Chatam Sofer, dayan and rabbi in Grosswardein from c. 1830], "R. Yitzchak Aharon Rabbi of Grosswardein" [R. Yisrael Yitzchak Aharon Landesberg (1803-1879), disciple of the Chatam Sofer who served in the Grosswardein rabbinate during 1853-1879].
This manuscript has not been printed and is an early draft of a responsum written in the Avnei Tzedek responsa, Even HaEzer, Siman 47 (see ibid more responsa on this matter in Simanim 48-50). The manuscript contains the renditions of the testimony in Yiddish (briefly mentioned in the printed responsum). The date and place of obtaining the testimony appears in the last line - the month of Iyar 1854 in the city of Urisor.
R. Menachem Mendel Paneth, Rabbi of Dej (1818-1885), son of the Rebbe, author of Mar'e Yechezkel (disciple of R. Mendel of Rymanów who served as Rabbi of Carlsberg and of Zibnbergen [Transylvania]). In 1837, he studied in the yeshiva of the Chatam Sofer and was the only young man in the Pressburg Yeshiva who donned a Chassidic silk robe on Shabbat. His teacher, the Chatam Sofer, was very fond of him and used to walk in conversation with him every Shabbat eve [he was wont to calling him the "golden one"]. At the time he studied in the yeshiva of the Chatam Sofer, he merited a revelation of Eliyahu HaNavi who greeted him in the Beit Midrash, in the disguise of a poor person. From 1842, he served as Rabbi of Urisor, from 1858 as Rabbi of Dej and from 1855, served as Rabbi of Transylvania. He wrote Maglei Tzedek on the Torah and the Avnei Tzedek, Sha'arei Tzedek and Mishpat Tzedek series of books of responsa.
[6] written pages, 21 cm. Good condition. Minor worming. Wear restoration to margins.