Auction 12 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters

"Glossed" Mishnah Berurah– with letters of dedication for a Bar Mitzvah

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Mishnah Berurah, on Shulchan Aruch Orach Haim, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Hacohen. Vol. IV, (chap. 345-428). Warsaw, (1904). Third edition. Vol. VI, (chap. 530-697). Piotrkow, 1907. First edition.
Notes "Glossed" in pen and pencil on the pages preceding the title page [presumably in the author's handwriting, the "Chafetz Chaim"].
Interesting letters of dedication are pasted to the other side of both title pages, signed by Rabbi "Yosef Gershon Horowitz, Rabbinical judge in Jerusalem", who presented these books "as a gift from which to study" to his grandson upon his Bar Mitzvah, with the additional blessing "to grow, to succeed and to strengthen himself and become a Jew who is lucid in his studies". (A play on the words Mishnah Berurah).
Rabbi Yosef Gershon Horowitz (1869-1951), one of the great rabbis of Jerusalem and amongst the first judges in Rabbi Frank's rabbinical court. Nephew of the "Rabbi of Dubrovno" and replaced him in the Rabbinate of the "Me'a She'arim" neighborhood and in the leadership of the Me'a She'arim Yeshiva. Studied Jewish law and Kabbalah under Rabbi Naftali Hertz Halevi, Rabbi of Jaffa.
Vol. IV: [1], 196-290 leaves. Vol. VI: 164 leaves. 23cm. Good condition. Original bindings with leather spines, worn.
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