Auction 4 Fine Antique Judaica
Oct 9, 2018 (Your local time)
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LOT 127:

R.Akiva Eiger/ Toras Ha’Bayis Berlin 1771. Unpublished Torah. Historic Discovery.

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Toras Ha’Bayis of the RaSHB”A, The R. Akiva Eiger copy, with handwritten unpublished novella on the fly leaf.
It seems that R. Akiva Eiger received this Sefer Toras Ha’Bayis from his confidant R. Meir Shimon Weil (Ma’HaRaM Weil), who had written two questions in the flyleaf. R. Akiva Eiger answers both, first prefacing the questions by noting by whom they were asked. The first answer is four wide lines, the second seven lines. Both of these answers have seemingly never been published.
On the title page there is a handwritten inscription of R. Itzik Leib Eiger of Johannesburg that says “Belongs to… Ha’Gaon Moreinu HaRav R. Akiva Ginz… Av Beis Din of Posen … I Ha’Katan Leib Ginz”, as well as the stamp of R. Leib. Additionally, on the title page and final page are various handwritten inscriptions by numerous students of R. Akiva Eiger.
R. Akiva Eiger-Ginz (1761-1836), was born in Eisenstadt into a rabbinical family and was well known as a child prodigy. He studied in the Yeshiva of Mattersdorf, and following that in Breslau as a student of his maternal uncle R. Wolf Eiger. In 1791 he was appointed as Rav of Friedland where he remained until 1815, after which he became the Rav of Posen. He was world renowned as an outstanding Talmid Chochom, Posek and foremost leader of European Jewry during the early 19th century.
Among his children were his two sons, R. Avrohom (1781-1853) and R. Shlomo (1785-1852), who was Rav in Kalisz, Poland and succeeded R. Akiva Eiger as Rav of Posen. His daughter Sorel (Eiger) Sofer (1790-1832), was the wife of the Chasam Sofer.
Vinograd Berlin 272. 44 pages (lacking pages 5 and 6). 19 cm. Fine condition. Antique wooden binding (loose).
Opening bid $10,000
 

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