Bidspirit auction | Hanoten Imrei Shefer, Frankfurt am

Hanoten Imrei Shefer, Frankfurt am Main, 1713- Signature of Rabbi Benjamin HaKohen Shakovitsky the Maggid of Minsk. - Sermons on the Torah and on Nevi'im and Ketuvim and Midrashim by Rabbi Eliyahu ibn Chaim - the Rana”ch. Frankfurt am Main, 1713. Signature: Benjamin HaKohen Shakovitsky ... Minsk. Rabbi Benjamin HaKohen Shakovitsky, (1871-1939) was ”The Maggid of Minsk”, the last of the famous Russian preachers. Born in Aishishok and was called in his youth ”The young Maggid of Aishishok”. He used to travel from Minsk to various cities to lecture and arouse Jews to repentance. During World War I he founded an underground organization for teaching Torah to hundreds of children from Minsk. He was a great expert on the Midrashim. In 1934, he immigrated to the Holy Land and became a lecturer in the Great Synagogue and other synagogues in Tel Aviv. He was known for his great love of Israel. Signature: Moshe Glanzer, Bóbrka. [1], 103, [2] Leaves. 32.2 cm.