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Copy & Glosses of the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel David HaKohen Friedman Dayan in Chust. Kabbalah: Kehilat Yaakov. First Edition. Lemberg, 1870. - Sefer Kehilat Yaakov – Sermons in Kabbalah by Rabbi Yaakov Tzvi Yalesh. First Edition. Lemberg, 1870.  Includes the approbations of the leading rabbis of the generation: Rabbi Yosef Shaul Halevi Natenzon, Rebbi Yitzchak Eizik of Zidichov, the Admor Rebbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz, Rabbi Shimon Sofer, and others. Stamp & Kabbalistic marginal glosses of the renowned Gaon Rabbi Shmuel David HaKohen Friedman Dayan of Chust. He was born in 1858 to his father the Gaon Rabbi Tzvi. He frequented the court of Rabbi Chaim of Sanz, who instructed his father that since he was exceptionally gifted, he should be married at a young age. Indeed, at age twelve he became engaged to the righteous maiden Tzipora in the village of Hrabanitz. Due to his tender age, however, his parents sent him to study in the yeshiva of the Maharam Schick in Chust, where he even recorded his teacher’s lectures. From there he continued to the yeshiva of the Yitav Lev in Sighet. He also spent time in the presence of the holy Divrei Yechezkel of Shinova. Around 1877 he began his rabbinic career as a dayan in the city of Verecke near the above-mentioned village of Hrabanitz. Around 1890 he was invited by the leaders of the Chust community to serve as their dayan and halachic authority. He became renowned as a decisive halachic authority, was deeply involved in permitting agunot, and was praised by the leading sages of the generation. He served there in Chust under several chief rabbis until his passing in 1933. Stamps of his son, Rabbi Yaakov HaKohen Friedman, dayan in Khust, during the lifetime of his father. A pious and ascetic man, a perfectly righteous individual; he was killed al kiddush Hashem during the Holocaust. See in his father’s sefer “Shraga BeTahara” several halachic responsa from him printed at the end of the volume. Likewise, in the introduction appear his holy words that he spoke before his martyrdom, may God avenge his blood. There too is printed the approbation (haskamah) of Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (the Maharitz Dushinsky) to his father’s novellae, in which he bestows important titles of praise upon the son – Rabbi Yaakov. [2], 28,[1], 1-54, 35, 22, [15] Leaves. 35 Cm.