Reshit Chochma - Dedication by the Author of Arugot HaBosem

Reshit Chochma - Dedication by the Author of Arugot HaBosem
Reshit Chochma, by the kabbalist R. Eliyahu de Vidas. Mukacheve, [1891-1898].
The title page bears a handwritten dedication signed by R. Moshe Greenwald Rabbi of Chust who gave the book as a wedding gift to his disciple "Outstanding in Torah and fear of G-d R. Ze'ev Tirneuer of Satmar on the day of his wedding", with warm hearty blessings.
Signatures and stamps, long glosses and inscriptions by the recipient of the book, R. Ze'ev Wolf Tirneuer.
The famous Torah scholar R. Moshe Ben-Amram Greenwald (1853-1910, HaChatam Sofer Ve'Talmidav p. 521) was a prominent Hungarian rabbi and head of yeshiva. Disciple of R. Menachem Katz Prostitz of Deutschkreutz (Zelem) and disciple of the Ktav Sofer in Pressburg. In his youth, he headed a yeshiva in his hometown Cherna, later serving in the rabbinate of several Hungarian communities and as Rabbi of Chust from 1893. Although he studied in the yeshiva of the Chatam Sofer, he was affiliated with Chassidism and would travel to the Belz and Siget rebbes. In Chust, he established his court and expanded his yeshiva which eventually became one of the largest yeshivas in Hungary. Disciples from all over the country and abroad flocked to his yeshiva and many Hungarian rabbis were his disciples. He was renowned for his compositions Arugat HaBosem on Halacha and Aggadah. His son was R. Ya'akov Yechizkiya Greenwald Av Bet Din and Rebbe of Papa, and his grandson is R. Yosef Greenwald of Papa, who established the post-Holocaust Papa Chassidism in America.
The recipient of the book and writer of the glosses is R. Ze'ev Wolf HaLevi Tirneuer (1882-1959), a beloved disciple of R. Yehuda Greenwald, Rabbi of Satmar as well as a disciple of R. Moshe Greenwald Rabbi of Chust, author of Arugot HaBosem. He served as Dayan in the city of Samloi and after World War I, in the rabbinates of Lespezi (Moldovia), Shotz (Bucovina) and others. After the Holocaust, he immigrated to Safed in 1950 together with his son-in-law R. Aharon Leifer of Nadvirna-Banie and served as Rabbi of the Agudat Yisrael Beit Midrash. He was an exceptional prodigy and holy man and adopted many Kabbalistic practices. In his senior years, he printed his book Tal Orot on the melachot of Shabbat but most of his writings were never printed.
276 leaves. 23.5 cm. Dry paper. Good-fair condition. Wear and stains. Splendid leather binding.
Regarding this edition, see: Kiryat Sefer, Vol. 27, 1951, p. 277.