Bidspirit auction | Passover Haggadah, Aggadas Mordechai, Amsterdam,

Passover Haggadah, Aggadas Mordechai, Amsterdam, 1764, With Additional Rare Leaf of Approbations. First and rare edition of the commentary on the Passover Haggadah by Rabbi Mordechai ben Joseph Henna, brother-in-law of the Yavetz.  Important approbations by the Ashkenazic and Sephardic rabbis of Amsterdam: Rabbi Shaul of Amsterdam, Av Beit Din of the Ashkenazic community, and Rabbi Shlomo Shalem, Av Beit Din of the Sephardic community of Amsterdam. And an approbation by Rabbi Yechezkel Katznelboigen the author of the Knesset Yisrael, the Rav of the Altona, Hamburg and Wandsbek communities.  A special variant, with an additional page after the title page, printed on one side, containing the ”approbations of the Geonim on ten books” by the author of the commentary. Rabbi Mordechai ben Yosef Yuzpa Hennah (1700-1767) Gaon and Tzaddik, Rosh Yeshiva, Dayan, and Darshan in the Hamburg community for more than forty years. From the family of the author of the responsa “Chavos Yair” and the Maharal of Prague, and descendant of Rabbi Itzik Brilin, Av Beis Din of Mannheim. In his first marriage he was the son-in-law of the author of “Tosefos Rishonim, ” and he was the Mechutan of Rabbi Yaakov Emden. He authored responsa in Halachah, taught students in his Beis Midrash, and composed twelve Sefarim, including the responsa “Divrei Mordechai, ” the Sefer “Baruch Mordechai” for sharpening students and resolving the words of the Rambam, the Drush Sefarim “Megillas Mordechai” and “Shiras Mordechai, ” “Shoshanas HaMelech” and “Baruch Mordechai” on the Rambam, and others. Among the works published from his writings are a “Haggadah Shel Pesach” with the commentary “Aggadas Mordechai” (Amsterdam, 1864), and the Sefer “Derishas Mordechai” on Pirkei Avos (Amsterdam, 1866). Size : 32 cm Pages : [3] 32. Condition : Overall in very fine condition, stains, new cloth binding.