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The personal exampler of Rabbi Binyamin Fuchs, Av Beit Din of Grosswardein — Chiddushei Ben Yair, by Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Raller. Chernivtsi, 1900. - The personal exampler of Rabbi Binyamin Fuchs, Av Beit Din of Grosswardein — Chiddushei Ben Yair, by Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Raller. Chernivtsi, 1900 . Chiddushei Ben Yair on the Shas, by Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Raller, Av Beit Din of Neamtz. Press of Tzvi Hirsch Wahl, Chernivtsi, 1900. First edition. Pedigreed exampler. 5, 109, [6] leaves, 32 cm. Lacking leaf 6 of the first count. With the stamp of Rabbi 'בנימין פוקס אב”ד דק”ק ווארדיין גדול' The great Gaon Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Raller [Roller] (1868–1947) — Av Beit Din of Târgu Neamț and among the great Halachic authorities of Romania. An extraordinary expert in releasing Agunot, through which he effected the release of thousands of Agunot in the First and Second World Wars. Author of Chiddushei Ben Yair and Responsa Be’er Chaim Mordechai. He was a Chassid of the Holy Rabbi David Moshe Friedman of Chortkov and of the Holy Rabbi Yitzchak Friedman of Bohush. A remarkable Torah scholar to whom no secret was hidden. He presided over major rabbinic councils and enacted several rulings for the moment and for generations. He passed away after his ascent to the Holy Land in a wondrous manner on Shabbat Kodesh. On Friday afternoon, hours before his passing, he managed to contact specifically Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Herzog to release an Agunah, saying: “Who knows what the day will bring…” The Gaon Rabbi Binyamin Fuchs (1877–1936) — son of the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Hirsch. Disciple of the Shevet Sofer of Pressburg. He served as Rabbi and Av Beit Din in several communities: Brașov, Yoke, Pezinok, and Banyi. Rabbi Binyamin became renowned as a towering Gaon in Torah and as a brilliant orator. He was appointed with great honor as Rabbi of Grosswardein in a period in which great luminaries lived there: the Ahavat Yisrael of Vizhnitz, and the city’s Av Beit Din, the Gaon Rabbi Pinchas Halevi Tzimetbaum, father-in-law of the Minchat Yitzchak. Binding partially detached, stains, one leaf missing, [2] blank pages due to a printing defect, folds and small tears at the corners of several leaves, fair–good condition.