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A Collection of Books with Signatures and Stamps of Great Rabbis - Handwritten Glosses - a. Mishnat Chachamim – on the fourty eight means of acquisition through which the Torah is acquired. By Rabbi Moshe Chagiz, author of ”Leket HaKemach”. Czernowitz, 1864. On the title page is an ownership stamp of Rabbi Shimon Zev Miller, Av Beit Din and last Rabbi of Arad and the Rosh Yeshiva there – the last yeshiva in communist Romania. At the end of his life he emigrated to America. b. Teshuvot Mahari”a – halachic responsa called ”Yehuda Ya'aleh” by Rabbi Yehuda Assad. Part one – Orach Chaim and Yoreh Deah, with two separate title pages. Lemberg, 1873. First edition. On both title pages is a signature in the handwriting of Rabbi Yosef Baumgarten, Dayan in the Kahal Yereim and in the ”Schiffschul” in Vienna from the year 1905. Son-in-law of Rabbi Shalom Dov Ber Stern of Szerdahely. Published articles in the monthly journal ”Tel Talpiot”. Among the book's leaves are a number of handwritten glosses. c. Mishneh Torah L'Rambam. Part one. Amsterdam, 1702. With a separate title page for the book ”Lechem Mishneh” by Rabbi Avraham de Boton. (9), 327, (6) leaves. Handwritten signatures and stamps of Rabbi Shlomo Yehuda Zalman Leib Friedlander, the Rabbi of Bolochov in 1900. d. Babylonian Talmud – tractates Beitza, Chagiga and Moed Katan. Vilna, 1890. On the title page is a handwritten signature: ”Teitelbaum”. e. Hilchot Rav Alfas – Order of Nashim. Lemberg, 1863. In the book are ownership stamps of Rabbi Gedaliah Shmelkis, Av Beit Din of Przemyśl. In the section of the Tosefta are many handwritten source references and glosses. The sources which Rabbi Shmelkis brings here show tremendous genius in the entire Talmud. Rabbi Gedaliah Shmelkis (1859-1928) was ordained by his primary Rabbi and uncle, Rabbi Yitzchak Shmelkis author of ”Beit Yitzchak” and by Rabbi Zvi Orenstein, Rabbi Yitzchak Aharon Itinga, and Rabbi Shimon Sofer. He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Yehoshua Zilber of Tarnow. From the year 1898 he was appointed as Rabbi of Kołomyja. From the year 1894 he served as Av Beit Din of Przemysl. Was active in advancing the settling of the Land of Israel. Wrote ”Immrei Reg”esh” (Piotrkow, 1931) and more. f. Kereti u-Peleti, on Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah, by Rabbi Yehonatan Eybeschutz. Warsaw, 1878. Bound with: Aryeh Debei Illai – novaelle on five tractates, by Rabbi Aryeh Leibush Lifshitz of Vishnitz. Przemysl, 1874. First edition. On the book's title page is an ownership stamp of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Tikochinsky (1870-1936). From 1894 he served as Rabbi of several communities in Poland. In 1925 he immigrated to Jerusalem and was one of the Rabbis of Jerusalem. Handwritten gloss. Condition: Varying conditions.