Novellae by the "Avnei Nezer" on the Rambam - Handwritten by his Grandson, the Rebbe Author of "Chasdei David"

A volume of the two books of Ha'Yad Ha'Chazaka, Seder Zemanim (Sections A-B). Warsaw, 1881.
Throughout the book, pages of the novellae of the Rebbe Rabbi Avraham Borenstein of Sochatchov, author of "Avnei Nezer", as they were copied by his grandson, the Rebbe Rabbi Davod Borenstein of Sochatchov, author of 'Chasdei David".

The Rebbe Author of "Avnei Nezer" wrote novellae and glosses on the margins of the pages of the book Ha'Yad Ha'Chazakah which he owned. Three of his grandsons, the sons of the Rebbe Rabbi Shmuel Borenstein author of "Shem Mi'Shmuel", copied the novellae onto other pages of books by the Rambam. The first of these is the copy before us, whose pages are all handwritten by the Rebbe Rabbi David Borenstein. Recently, the novellae was printed and published according to the three copies mentioned above. The copy before us contains slight changes from the version that was printed and an additional gloss, which most likely was lost to the printers.

Many handwritten glosses on page margins. The glosses are copies of glosses and notes written by the first Sochaczew Rebbe Avraham Borenstein, author of Avnei Nezer and Eglei Tal. These marginalia of the Avnei Nezer on the Rambam were copied by his three grandsons, sons of the author of Shem M'Shmuel, and were printed in the book "Gilyonot Avnei Nezer al HaRambam (Jerusalem, 1995), 20 years ago. This is the original copy, in the handwriting of his grandson Rebbe David Borenstein author of Chasdei David.

The novellae includes sources, notations and glosses on the Rambam and his adjutants. There are also short notations of comments, questions and answers regarding the Rambam and short and long novellae and commentary on the Rambam and his adjutants.

Rabbi David Borenstein (1876-1943), the Chasdei David, was born in 1876 in Nasielsk to his father, the author of Shem Mi'Shmuel, son of the Avnei Nezer of Sochaczew. At the age of 20, he was appointed Rabbi of Wyszogród, there he headed the Yeshiva Gedolah for young men. After World War I, he moved to serve as the rabbi of Tomaszów and Zagórz. After the death of his father in 1926, he became Rebbe and was one of the leading Rebbes in Poland. He died in the Warsaw Ghetto in Kislev, 1942. All his descendants perished in the Holocaust. His many books and most of his writings on Talmudic treatises in Halacha and Aggada were lost in the travails of those times.

Rabbi Avraham Borenstein - the first Sochatchov Rebbe (1839-1890), a leading Torah genius and tzaddik in his times. Son-in-law of Rebbe Menachem Mendel "The Saraf of Kotzk". While he served as Rebbe to thousands of Chassidim, he headed a yeshiva where he taught his special method of studying Torah. Many of Poland's Torah scholars were his close disciples (the Chelkat Yo'av, Rabbi Aryeh Zvi Frumer, the Gaon of Koziegłowy, Rabbi Avraham Weinberg, author of Reshit Bikurim, and others). His Avnei Nezer and Eglei Tal responsa on the melachot of Shabbat are basic study books in the area of Torah scholarship and Halacha.

170, 22, 171-420 pp. 38 cm.
Condition: Good-Very Good. The first title page is missing as well as the two last leaves of the second section. The margins of the first and last leaves are torn and the leaves themselves are worn, with damage to single words and some of the glosses. New, impressive leather binding with golden inscription.