Auction 51 Part I - Books Chassidism Manuscripts Rabbinical Letters
Manuscript, Mishna Ketana on Tractate Mikvaot - Written in Communist Russia - Moscow, 1928
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Manuscript, Mishna Ketana, commentaries and novellae on the Tosefta and Mishnayot Tractate Mikvaot, Chapters 1-6, by Rabbi Moshe son of R' Pesach Katan. [Moscow, 1928].
A complete manuscript, handwritten by the author, Rabbi Moshe son of R' Pesach Katan, author of Beit Yisrael on Tractate Midot, Kinim and others (Vilna, 1908). In the introduction, the author quotes a part of a letter he received from his teacher Rabbi Yosef Rosen, "the Rogatchover", after Beit Yisrael on Tractate Midot was originally published. Rabbi Rosen wrote: "I received your book Beit Yisrael and reviewed it and saw that it explains difficult matters in a straightforward manner". Further in the introduction, he writes a commemoration for his two sons, Pesach and Michel who died without offspring. The first was murdered during riots and the younger son died during surgery.
On the title page of the book is the approbation of Rabbi Yoel son of Rabbi Ben Zion Sorotzkin, Moscow, the 8th of Elul 1928, who signed as "Rabbi and Rosh Metivta here". [Rabbi Yoel Sorotzkin, brother of Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin, served as Rabbi of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad) and in Stolbtsy. During World War I, he arrived in Moscow and only in 1930 was he able to escape to Poland. He settled in Otwock until his death in 1938].
This book, which was never printed, is a vestige of the Torah of those illustrious Torah scholars, who in spite of persecution by the Bolshevik government in Russia did not forsake the study of Torah for the sake of Heaven. They continued to try to fathom its depths and even wrote books on profound Talmudic treatises. Most of their writings have disappeared during the seventy subsequent years of religious severance, in a country without a subsequent generation of Torah scholars who can discern the erudition of previous times. [The work Tevuna - Toldot Yitzchak on the Yerushalmi Talmud, written by a Torah scholar in those days is well-known and was later printed by the Mutzal Me'Esh - Al Tidon institute].
[2], 27, 27-28, [1], 28-60 leaves. [Approximately 124 large written pages], 35 cm. Brittle paper. Fair condition. Tears to margins and detached leaves. Worn and torn binding.
A complete manuscript, handwritten by the author, Rabbi Moshe son of R' Pesach Katan, author of Beit Yisrael on Tractate Midot, Kinim and others (Vilna, 1908). In the introduction, the author quotes a part of a letter he received from his teacher Rabbi Yosef Rosen, "the Rogatchover", after Beit Yisrael on Tractate Midot was originally published. Rabbi Rosen wrote: "I received your book Beit Yisrael and reviewed it and saw that it explains difficult matters in a straightforward manner". Further in the introduction, he writes a commemoration for his two sons, Pesach and Michel who died without offspring. The first was murdered during riots and the younger son died during surgery.
On the title page of the book is the approbation of Rabbi Yoel son of Rabbi Ben Zion Sorotzkin, Moscow, the 8th of Elul 1928, who signed as "Rabbi and Rosh Metivta here". [Rabbi Yoel Sorotzkin, brother of Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin, served as Rabbi of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad) and in Stolbtsy. During World War I, he arrived in Moscow and only in 1930 was he able to escape to Poland. He settled in Otwock until his death in 1938].
This book, which was never printed, is a vestige of the Torah of those illustrious Torah scholars, who in spite of persecution by the Bolshevik government in Russia did not forsake the study of Torah for the sake of Heaven. They continued to try to fathom its depths and even wrote books on profound Talmudic treatises. Most of their writings have disappeared during the seventy subsequent years of religious severance, in a country without a subsequent generation of Torah scholars who can discern the erudition of previous times. [The work Tevuna - Toldot Yitzchak on the Yerushalmi Talmud, written by a Torah scholar in those days is well-known and was later printed by the Mutzal Me'Esh - Al Tidon institute].
[2], 27, 27-28, [1], 28-60 leaves. [Approximately 124 large written pages], 35 cm. Brittle paper. Fair condition. Tears to margins and detached leaves. Worn and torn binding.
Manuscripts - Ashkenaz
Manuscripts - Ashkenaz