Bidspirit auction | Brit Shalom. First Edition, Frankfurt

Brit Shalom. First Edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1718 – With the Approbation of the Sages of the Four Lands. - Sefer Chiddushei Torah, entitled Brit Shalom, containing homiletical discourses on the Torah, the Five Megillot, and the Passover Haggadah, authored by the Gaon Rabbi Pinchas ben Pilta, Av Beit Din of Włodawa.  Only Edition. Frankfurt am Main, 1718. With approbations from the Sages of the Four Lands of the Kingdom of Poland and numerous additional endorsements from leading rabbinic authorities of the era.  Bearing an early signature on the title page of R. Naftali Hirsch Katz.  Also with an early signature of Ephraim son of Samson Munden.  The author, Rabbi Pinchas of Włodawa (ca. 1620–1663), was born in Poznań to Rabbi Pilta, a dayan of the Poznań community. While still young, he married Rachel, daughter of Rabbi Samson of Włodawa, a town near Brest. He settled there and, after several years, was appointed rabbi of the city, a position in which he earned considerable renown. [2], 132, 9, [1] leaves; 31.5 cm.