Auction 12 - Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Shoresh Yosef – Amsterdam, 1730 – Signature of Rabbi Michel Scheyer, Rabbi of the Chatam Sofer
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Shoresh Yosef, Dinei Migo. By Rabbi Yosef of Breslau, son-in-law of Rabbi Avraham Broda. Amsterdam, (1730). Only edition.
Handwritten notation and signature at head of title page: “G-D has endowed me with this book, Michel son of Rabbi Teveli Scheyer”.
Rabbi Michel son of Rabbi Teveli Scheyer, disciple of Rabbi Natan Adler, served as Rosh Yeshiva in Mintz at the same time that his father, Rabbi Teveli, served in the Mitz rabbinate. In this yeshiva, a young man by the name of Moshe Sofer from Frankfurt learned for two years [he was later known as the author of the Chatam Sofer – a eulogy on him appears in Drashot HaChatam Sofer (77, 3), in which he portrays Rabbi Michel as his rabbi and mentor: “The Ga’on… famous in his astuteness, exalted in wisdom… and I have studied by him in the Yeshiva in Mintz during the years 1776 and 1777”]. During the years 1778-1782 served as Av Beit Din of Vermiza, and from 1782 served as Av Beit Din and Rosh Yeshiva of the Menheim Yeshiva, until his demise in 1810. Genius and Kabbalist, considered one of the greatest leaders of Yeshivot in Ashkenaz and among the greatest of his generation. Many Ashkenaz Torah giants were his students. [In the introduction of Chidushei Ba’al Shem from Michelstadt it is written that the Ba’al Shem was among the disciples of Rabbi Michel, who taught him the wisdom of Kabbalah].
Stamps and ownership notation of the philanthropist Rabbi “Fishel HaCohen Lapin, [among the most wealthy individuals of Lithuania and Jerusalem, close associate and prominent disciple of Rabbi Yisrael of Salant].
(2), 52 leaves. 22 cm. Good condition, minor stains and some moth damage. Old binding.
Handwritten notation and signature at head of title page: “G-D has endowed me with this book, Michel son of Rabbi Teveli Scheyer”.
Rabbi Michel son of Rabbi Teveli Scheyer, disciple of Rabbi Natan Adler, served as Rosh Yeshiva in Mintz at the same time that his father, Rabbi Teveli, served in the Mitz rabbinate. In this yeshiva, a young man by the name of Moshe Sofer from Frankfurt learned for two years [he was later known as the author of the Chatam Sofer – a eulogy on him appears in Drashot HaChatam Sofer (77, 3), in which he portrays Rabbi Michel as his rabbi and mentor: “The Ga’on… famous in his astuteness, exalted in wisdom… and I have studied by him in the Yeshiva in Mintz during the years 1776 and 1777”]. During the years 1778-1782 served as Av Beit Din of Vermiza, and from 1782 served as Av Beit Din and Rosh Yeshiva of the Menheim Yeshiva, until his demise in 1810. Genius and Kabbalist, considered one of the greatest leaders of Yeshivot in Ashkenaz and among the greatest of his generation. Many Ashkenaz Torah giants were his students. [In the introduction of Chidushei Ba’al Shem from Michelstadt it is written that the Ba’al Shem was among the disciples of Rabbi Michel, who taught him the wisdom of Kabbalah].
Stamps and ownership notation of the philanthropist Rabbi “Fishel HaCohen Lapin, [among the most wealthy individuals of Lithuania and Jerusalem, close associate and prominent disciple of Rabbi Yisrael of Salant].
(2), 52 leaves. 22 cm. Good condition, minor stains and some moth damage. Old binding.
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