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Signature & stamps of the holy Gaon Rabbi Shimon Greenfeld, author of She’eilot u-Teshuvot Maharshag. - Sefer Orach Mishor on Tractate Nazir by Rabbi Yochanan Kremenitzer, with additional novellae on the Rambam. Lemberg, 1864. On the flyleaf is the youthful signature of the holy Gaon the Maharshag: “Lh''u , Shimon son of my teacher and master Mahar''i of Khust.” On the title page are his embossed seals from the period in which he served as a dayan in Munkács  “Shimon Grünfeld, Munkács.  G.S.” The holy Rabbi Shimon Greenfeld, author of Shu”t Maharashag (1861–1930), was one of Hungary's foremost halachic authorities. He traveled to study under the Divrei Chaim of Sanz and was one of the few who fully grasped the complexity of his teachings. He was also a student of Kol Aryeh and the Maharam Schick. He was born in Huszt to Rabbi Yehuda Greenfeld, who later became the Rabbi of Bűdszentmihály and authored Kol Yehuda. Rabbi Shimon served as a judge in Munkacs and, from 1907, took over his father’s position as Rabbi and head of the yeshiva in Bűdszentmihály. In his yeshiva, students studied the entire Talmudic tractate in sequence, systematically and without jumping from topic to topic, as was customary in many Hungarian yeshivot at the time. In his yeshiva, no specific time was allocated to study Hasidic or ethical texts; Rabbi Shimon explained that he prayed that students who did not find the study of Talmud sufficient to ignite their fear of Heaven would not come to his yeshiva. [1], 61 Leaves. 22.2 cm.