Bidspirit auction | Birchas Eliyahu, Wandsbeck 1728, Only
Birchas Eliyahu, Wandsbeck 1728, Only edition. Signature of Rabbi Benjamin Wolf Troilingen. - Sefer Birkat Eliyahu contains explanations on the Talmudic tractates Bava Kamma, Ketubot, Gittin, and Kiddushin by Rabbi Eliyahu, the Av Beit Din of Olianov. Only Edition, Wandsbeck, 1728. At the press of Yisrael ben Avraham. An uncommon Sefer. It includes an approbation from the esteemed Rabbi Yechezkel Katznelbogen, the Av Beit Din of Altona-Hamburg-Wandsbek. On pages 55a to 58a, responsa from Rabbi Moshe Hagiz on several customs. Signature on the title ” The humble Binyamin Wolf Troilingen ... 1738” - the signature of Rabbi Wolf Troilingen (Treuchtlingen) , a leader in the state of Ansbach and the father-in-law of Rabbi Yosef Troilingen, who was a dayan in Ansbach. Both of their approbations can be found in the sefer Ba'al HaTurim on the Torah with the commentary Ateret Bikurim, published in Fürth in 1752. Rabbi Wolf is mentioned in the works of the Chida, ”Shem HaGedolim” and ”Ma'agal Tov.” The Chida recounts meeting Rabbi Wolf during his visit to Germany: ”The distinguished and remarkable rabbinical leader Rabbi Wolf, who completed the entire Talmud and the Four Turim thirteen times, as was testified about him, and I saw him immediately reading a page of the Talmud in the synagogue after the prayer” (”Shem HaGedolim, ” Book Section, Zecher Yaakov). In his travel journal ”Ma'agal Tov” (p. 15), the Chida writes: ”On Friday of Parashat Korach, we left the city of Ettingen and came to the holy community of Troilingen and stayed with the rabbinical leader Rabbi Wolf, the leader of the state of Ansbach... And indeed, Rabbi Wolf is a venerable and holy man, conducting himself with piety, and it was said about him that he studied the Talmud and the Four Turim many times...” [3], 58 pages. 19.2 Cm.