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Yavin Shemu’ah, by the Gaon, author of Shemen Rokach. Prague, 1814. First edition. Pedigreed exampler. - Yavin Shemu’ah, by the Gaon, author of Shemen Rokach. Prague, 1814. First edition. Pedigreed exampler. Sefer Yavin Shemu’ah on the Torah, by Rabbi Elazar Löw, author of Shemen Rokach. Press of Franz Johann Scholl, Prague, 1814. First edition. [4], 92 leaves. The last [2] leaves lacking and supplied in photocopy. With ownership signatures in Hebrew and in European script, among them the signature of Rabbi Yaakov Yehoshua Freund. The Sefer Yavin Shemu’ah — the Sefer of the author of Shemen Rokach, first published in Prague in 1814. The author writes his introduction while serving as Rabbi of Ranschburg, explaining that the Sefer includes explanations and commentaries on the teachings of Chazal, arranged according to the weekly Torah portions, for the benefit of the Jewish masses who are occupied with livelihood all week and yearn to study Torah on Shabbat and Moadim. As a result, the style of the Sefer is suited to such readers, as the author writes further: “I desired in this composition only to arouse the hearts that yearn to understand the teachings of our Sages, and I have shortened as much as possible and in light language, so that every person may understand this Sefer, without needing to open another Sefer, for he will find everything explained.” The Gaon Rabbi Elazar Ben Reb Aryeh Leib Löw (1758–1837), author of Responsa Shemen Rokach and other Sefarim. In 1775, at age seventeen, he was appointed Rabbi and Av Beit Din in the community of Wodzisław; in 1778 he became Rabbi of Pilz near Krakow. Around 1798 he became Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva in Trebitsch, Moravia; and in 1813 he became Rabbi of the cities Ranschburg, Pilsen and Galatz in Bohemia. In 1815 he returned to Trebitsch; in 1821 he was Rabbi of Mimiklós in Hungary; and in 1830 he served as Rabbi of Abaújszántó. Rabbi Yaakov Yehoshua Freund (1865–1935) — son of Rabbi Nachum Mordechai Freund, among the great Chassidim of Rabbi Chaim of Sanz. He studied in the Yetev Lev Yeshiva. He lived in Satmar, where he was close to the Holy Rabbi of Satmar. He lived in the courts of the Holy Rabbi of Shinova, the Holy Rabbi of Gorlitz, and the Holy Rabbi, author of Darkei Teshuvah of Munkatch. He was the Mechutan of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Lefkowitz. He immigrated to Eretz Yisrael in 1932 and settled in the holy city of Jerusalem. See his biography in Ish Chayil – Toldot Rabbi Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Lifkowitz, vol. I, pp. 250–257. New binding with gilt letters, stains, the last [2] leaves were lacking and supplied in photocopy, good condition.