Auction 76 - The Gaon of Vilna and his Disciples: Books and Manuscripts from the Yeshayahu Vinograd Collection
Baal HaNefesh – Berlin, 1762 – Signature of Rabbi Yissachar Ber, Brother of the Gaon of Vilna
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Baal HaNefesh, laws of Niddah by the Raavad, with laws of Niddah by the Ramban, and Chiddushei HaRan on Tractate Niddah. Berlin, [1762].
Copy of R. Yissachar Ber, brother of the Gaon of Vilna. Signature at the top of the title page: " Yissachar Ber son of R. Shlomo Zalman". This is presumably the signature of R. Yissachar Ber, brother of the Gaon of Vilna.
The signature is followed by two inscriptions, in a different hand: "Yissachar Ber son of R. Shlomo Zalman"; "Shlomo Zalman Sh.Y.L.[?]".
R. Yissachar Ber son of R. Shlomo Zalman (d. Elul 1807), brother of the Gaon of Vilna. An outstanding Torah scholar, both in revealed and kabbalistic realms of the Torah. R. Yissachar Ber was the son-in-law of the wealthy R. Asher Ginzburg, and was known in Vilna as "R. Ber R. Asher's". Samuel Joseph Fünn of Vilna relates that "he authored a commentary on the Torah, a large book… from that composition it appears that he also authored commentaries on the Talmud; his heirs are also in possession of a commentary on Shulchan Aruch Yoreh De'ah in manuscript" (Fünn, Kiryah Ne'emana, p. 205). Yitzchak Eizik Ben Yaakov, in his book Otzar HaSefarim (p. 479, letter Peh, no. 718), lists a manuscript composition by R. Yissachar Ber: "I saw in the hands of one of his descendants, here in our city, a truly wonderful composition according to the depth of the Peshat, which he asked to be arranged for print, and he titled it Tzuf Devash". The manuscript of this work was recently discovered and published in Yeshurun IV, New York-Jerusalem 1999, pp. 269-328.
His son-in-law was R. Yaakov Kahana, author of Geon Yaakov on Tractate Eruvin. In his foreword to this book, R. N.N. Rabinowitz relates how R. Yissachar Ber took R. Yaakov as a son-in-law, and brought him to study under his brother the Gaon of Vilna. The latter took him under his wings and R. Yaakov studied under him with exceptional diligence and purity for twenty-one years, until the passing of the Gaon of Vilna.
[1], 74 leaves. 21 cm. Good condition. Stains. Stamps on title page. Old binding, worn and damaged. Tears to spine. Placed in a fine case.
Provenance: The Yeshayahu Vinograd Collection, Jerusalem.
Copy of R. Yissachar Ber, brother of the Gaon of Vilna. Signature at the top of the title page: " Yissachar Ber son of R. Shlomo Zalman". This is presumably the signature of R. Yissachar Ber, brother of the Gaon of Vilna.
The signature is followed by two inscriptions, in a different hand: "Yissachar Ber son of R. Shlomo Zalman"; "Shlomo Zalman Sh.Y.L.[?]".
R. Yissachar Ber son of R. Shlomo Zalman (d. Elul 1807), brother of the Gaon of Vilna. An outstanding Torah scholar, both in revealed and kabbalistic realms of the Torah. R. Yissachar Ber was the son-in-law of the wealthy R. Asher Ginzburg, and was known in Vilna as "R. Ber R. Asher's". Samuel Joseph Fünn of Vilna relates that "he authored a commentary on the Torah, a large book… from that composition it appears that he also authored commentaries on the Talmud; his heirs are also in possession of a commentary on Shulchan Aruch Yoreh De'ah in manuscript" (Fünn, Kiryah Ne'emana, p. 205). Yitzchak Eizik Ben Yaakov, in his book Otzar HaSefarim (p. 479, letter Peh, no. 718), lists a manuscript composition by R. Yissachar Ber: "I saw in the hands of one of his descendants, here in our city, a truly wonderful composition according to the depth of the Peshat, which he asked to be arranged for print, and he titled it Tzuf Devash". The manuscript of this work was recently discovered and published in Yeshurun IV, New York-Jerusalem 1999, pp. 269-328.
His son-in-law was R. Yaakov Kahana, author of Geon Yaakov on Tractate Eruvin. In his foreword to this book, R. N.N. Rabinowitz relates how R. Yissachar Ber took R. Yaakov as a son-in-law, and brought him to study under his brother the Gaon of Vilna. The latter took him under his wings and R. Yaakov studied under him with exceptional diligence and purity for twenty-one years, until the passing of the Gaon of Vilna.
[1], 74 leaves. 21 cm. Good condition. Stains. Stamps on title page. Old binding, worn and damaged. Tears to spine. Placed in a fine case.
Provenance: The Yeshayahu Vinograd Collection, Jerusalem.
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