Bidspirit auction | Beit Shmuel, on Shulchan Aruch


Beit Shmuel, on Shulchan Aruch Even HaEzer. Dyhernfurth, 1689. First edition. Personal copy of the Gaon Rabbi Aryeh Leib Haft. Sefer Beit Shmuel [first edition], by Rabbi Shmuel ben Rabbi Uri Shraga Feibush of Wodzisław. On Shulchan Aruch Even HaEzer [with the text]. Printed by Shabtai Meshorer [Bass], Dyhernfurth, 1689. [1], 155 leaves, irregular foliation. Lacking leaves 156–158. Ownership inscriptions: 'שייך להרב המגיד דק”ק קאשטוקאו'  and 'שייך לארי' ליב האפט מ”ץ דקאראפ'. With stamps of his son, Rabbi Binyamin Haft of Klintsy. Rabbi Aryeh Leib Haft (born 1834) – author of She’elot U’Teshuvot Divrei Ta’am (Warsaw, 1904) on the four parts of the Shulchan Aruch, one of the great rabbis of his generation. Rabbi in the communities of Karap, Kozelets, and Konotop. One of the teachers of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Tziralson. Otzar HaRabbanim 3283. Rabbi Binyamin ben Rabbi Aryeh Leib Haft – Moreh Tzedek in Klintsy. Otzar HaRabbanim 3908. Half-leather binding damaged, incomplete copy, wormholes, stains, damaged spine, fair condition.