Auction 22 - Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical Letters

Mishnayot Seder Mo’ed – Signatures

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Mishnayot, Seder Mo’ed, with commentary of Rabbi Ovadia of Bartenura and Tosfot Yom Tov, including "Tosafot Chadashim". Vienna, 1857.
Binding leaves and title page contain stamps and signature of Rabbi Yehoshua Brisk Av Beit Din of Tisa-Dada, family notations in his handwriting [prayer upon death of his mother and listing of her genealogy], and in later handwriting [various death dates]. Title page contains stamp of his son Rabbi “David Ya’akov Brisk Av Beit Din Tisa-Dada”, and signatures [of his son?] Rabbi Tzvi Brisk.
The Ga’on Rabbi Yehoshua Brisk (passed away in 1913, Otzar HaRabbanim 7535), among rabbis of Hungary, Av Beit Din of Tisa-Dada. His three sons were famous rabbis of Hungary who all perished in the Holocaust: The Ga’on Rabbi Mordechai (Maharam) Brisk, Av Beit Din of Tashand; the Ga’on Rabbi Natan Tzvi Brisk Av Beit Din of Salonta; and the Ga’on Rabbi David Ya’akov Brisk who succeeded his father in the rabbinate of Tisa-Dada.
130 leaves. 27 cm. Good condition. Stains and wear. Many notations. Worn binding.
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