Bidspirit auction | Chemdat Segulah! Copy of Rabbeinu

Chemdat Segulah! Copy of Rabbeinu Hakadosh the Maharal Tzintz with Glosses: Abudraham - Amsterdam, 1726 - Sefer Abudraham, ”teachign us to pray... the complete Sage Rabbeinu David ben Rabbi Yosef Abudraham... I had an idea to reprint it in a small format so anyone could carry it with him. And we have added indices... edited by Rabbi Yaakov ben Naftali Hirsch Fas and Rabbi Menachem Ben Shlomo Halevi”.  Important and early, apparently the sixth, edition of this important Sefer Yesod on the prayer, its version and synagogue customs and the first that was printed in a small format. The Press of Rabbi Moshe Frankfurt of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1726, [3], 140 leaves. 18 cm. Leaves 2-3 are missing. Moth perforations. Stains and other minor blemishes. Good overall condition. New fabric spine and corners. Apparently original binding.  On the title page, a notation: ”זה הספר שייך לכהר”ר ליב צונץ שליט”א” and an additional notation: ”ליב צונץ” (possibly his handwritten signature? We do not know of another signature by him to compare) and the signature of ”ר”ד [רפאל דוד] טעבלי הלוי מנורדהויזן”. Throughout the book, on the margins, 4 short glosses in a script similar to that of Rabbeinu Meir Hagolah, the Gaon Rabbi Aryeh Leib Tzintz - the Maharal Tzintz. Since the glosses are short, we were unable to verify whether it is indeed his handwriting. However, its form and the style of using Ashkenazic script with square script indicates that this indeed Rabbeinu's handwriting. See more in the introduction to the book Gett Mekushar Vetiv Gittin, Ashdod 2014 edition.  Books that has belonged to the Gaon of Plock are extremely rare, all the more so with glosses on their margins.  Rabbeinu the Maharal Tzintz - Rabbi Aryeh Leib Tzintz - Der Plocker Gaon (1768-1833) a prominent Gedol Torah of Poland in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was born in Pinsk and already as a youth was known as an Iluy, knowledgeable in the entire Shas and Poskim. Rabbi Aryeh Leib served as Rav of important communities including Plock and Prague, yet was renowned mainly for his religious works and his supreme Halachic authority. He was greatly revered by Gedolei Hador including the Chasam Sofer and the Netivot Mishpat and was considered one of the central contemporary Meishivim.  His last will is famed due to the rare promise it contains that anyone who makes an effort to publish his books after his passing, he will serve as a Meilitz Yosher for him in the world to come. This promise led to it that his many books dealing with Chidushim on the Shas, Rambam, Shulchan Aruch and Drush, had many editions  over the years. Rabbeinu passed away in Iyar 1833 and was buried in Warsaw. To this day, his grave is a site for many who come to pray for Yeshu'ah.