Auction 44 - Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Tehillim with the Rommemut El Commentary - Amsterdam, 1695 - Signatures of Rabbi Tevli Schiff Av Bet Din of London, Teacher of Rabbi Natan Adler of Frankfurt
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Rommemut El, Tehillim (without vowels) with the commentary of Rabbi Moshe Alshich. Amsterdam, 1695. Printed by David Tartas. Abridged edition by Rabbi Eliezer ben Rabbi Chanina of the Tarnogród community in Poland.
Faded signature in the center of the title page and signatures and inscriptions at the end of the book in the handwriting of Rabbi Tevli HaCohen Schiff of Frankfurt am Main (who bought the book from his uncle Rabbi Leib Zintzheim).
Rabbi David Tevli HaCohen Schiff (died in Kislev 1791), was one of the greatest Torah figures of his illustrious days, and a leading Frankfurt scholar. Disciple of the Shev Ya'akov and the Pnei Yehoshua. From 1748-1760 he headed the Worms kloiz which was established by his uncle Rabbi Leib Zintzheim. In 1760, he returned to his native city Frankfurt am Main to serve as Dayan in the Bet Din of Rabbi Avraham Abish, Av Bet Din of Frankfurt, together with his faithful friend Dayan Rabbi Natan. They had a long-standing friendship from the time they both studied in yeshiva under the Shev Ya'akov and Pnei Yehoshua until their senior years, as Rabbi David Tevli himself writes in his approbation to the book Binyan Shlomo on Tractate Sanhedrin. When Rabbi Tevli returned to Frankfurt, he taught the Torah genius Rabbi Natan Adler of Frankfurt am Main [the Chatam Sofer's teacher], who deemed him his closest teacher from whom he learned the most. In 1765, he was appointed Chief Rabbi of London and its surrounding area.
Rabbi David Tevli had a close relationship with many Torah leaders of his times such as Rabbi Shaul Av Bet Din of Amsterdam, Rabbi Yechezkel Landau author of Nodah Be'Yehuda, who writes about Rabbi Schiff (Nodah Be’Yehuda responsa, Even HaEzer, Tanina, Siman 76): “The honorable beloved friend whom I cherish, the luminary Rabbi … the famous great Torah genius…He left no angle in all the teachings of the Torah authorities which he did not quote…”. Also Rabbi Yeshaya Pik of Breslau had correspondence with Rabbi Schiff and writes: “The famous great Torah genius… sharp-minded… regularly teaches Torah to disciples, studies Torah for its own sake to fulfill its teachings”.
93, [1] leaves. Approximately 20 cm. Good-fair condition, wear, detached leaves, torn binding.
Faded signature in the center of the title page and signatures and inscriptions at the end of the book in the handwriting of Rabbi Tevli HaCohen Schiff of Frankfurt am Main (who bought the book from his uncle Rabbi Leib Zintzheim).
Rabbi David Tevli HaCohen Schiff (died in Kislev 1791), was one of the greatest Torah figures of his illustrious days, and a leading Frankfurt scholar. Disciple of the Shev Ya'akov and the Pnei Yehoshua. From 1748-1760 he headed the Worms kloiz which was established by his uncle Rabbi Leib Zintzheim. In 1760, he returned to his native city Frankfurt am Main to serve as Dayan in the Bet Din of Rabbi Avraham Abish, Av Bet Din of Frankfurt, together with his faithful friend Dayan Rabbi Natan. They had a long-standing friendship from the time they both studied in yeshiva under the Shev Ya'akov and Pnei Yehoshua until their senior years, as Rabbi David Tevli himself writes in his approbation to the book Binyan Shlomo on Tractate Sanhedrin. When Rabbi Tevli returned to Frankfurt, he taught the Torah genius Rabbi Natan Adler of Frankfurt am Main [the Chatam Sofer's teacher], who deemed him his closest teacher from whom he learned the most. In 1765, he was appointed Chief Rabbi of London and its surrounding area.
Rabbi David Tevli had a close relationship with many Torah leaders of his times such as Rabbi Shaul Av Bet Din of Amsterdam, Rabbi Yechezkel Landau author of Nodah Be'Yehuda, who writes about Rabbi Schiff (Nodah Be’Yehuda responsa, Even HaEzer, Tanina, Siman 76): “The honorable beloved friend whom I cherish, the luminary Rabbi … the famous great Torah genius…He left no angle in all the teachings of the Torah authorities which he did not quote…”. Also Rabbi Yeshaya Pik of Breslau had correspondence with Rabbi Schiff and writes: “The famous great Torah genius… sharp-minded… regularly teaches Torah to disciples, studies Torah for its own sake to fulfill its teachings”.
93, [1] leaves. Approximately 20 cm. Good-fair condition, wear, detached leaves, torn binding.
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