Auction 57 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art
Unprinted Responsum - Autograph of the First Dej Rebbe, R. Menachem Mendel Paneth, Disciple of the Chatam Sofer
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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.
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.
Letters - Chassidism
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