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Glosses of the Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Baruch HaLevi Prager, Av Beit Din of Petrovo Selo. - Sefer Torat Chatat by Rabbi Moses Isserles (the Rema), with the commentary Minchat Yaakov. Zolkva, [1859]. Several (erased) stamps of the Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Baruch HaLevi Prager, Av Beit Din of Petrovosella (Bačko Petrovo Selo, Péterréve)  Important handwritten glosses in his own hand. It is possible that some of the glosses are still from his father, the Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Segal Prager, Av Beit Din of Ada and Petrovosella. The Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Baruch HaLevi Prager (1887–1944), son of Rabbi Yaakov Prager, author of She’elat Yaakov, and grandson of Maharam Schick, Av Beit Din of Chust. He studied and received ordination from Rabbi Yehuda Greenwald. He married the daughter of Rabbi Yehuda Lichtenstein, Av Beit Din of Betlan. He was known as an exalted righteous figure, whose prayers were exceptionally lengthy, especially on Shabbat and festivals, often extending close to sunset. He ate meat only on Shabbat, festivals, and Rosh Chodesh, and minimized his food intake during the rest of the week. He was deeply devoted to acts of kindness and the pursuit of mitzvot. All money that came into his home he distributed to charity, including his own salary. Once, on the eve of Shabbat, while at the mikveh, he noticed a poor Jew wearing torn and dirty shoes, and exchanged his own Shabbat shoes for the man’s. On another occasion, when a poor man told him he lacked funds to marry off his daughter, he gave him his own pillows and blankets for the dowry. He would visit rural Jews, inquire about their welfare, strengthen peace in their homes, and arrange for the construction of mikva’ot. He saw his primary mission as the dissemination of Torah and established a small yeshiva in his study hall for young students. In 1944, he was murdered י together with his wife & seven childre at Auschwitz, may God avenge their blood. Four of his daughters survived. [1], 62, 33, [8] Leaves. 28.3 cm.