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3 Important Items by Rabbi Shaul Amsterdam - Lot of three rare items by the author of the Binyan Ariel the Gaon Rabbi Shaul Lowenstam ben Rabbi Aryeh Leib, Av Beit Din of Amsterdam.  1 - Sefer Binyan Ariel by Rabbi Shaul of Amsterdam - first edition in the author's lifetime. Amsterdam, [1778]. On the book's inside binding there is a dedication indicating the book had belonged to Rabbi Shaul himself and was given as a gift by him. Complete and in very good condition. Divided into two sections: Section I includes Chadrei Torah with elucidations on the Torah and Beit Moed with Chidushim and Drushim on the Moadim and Chamesh Megillot. Section II with a separate title page is titled Beit Talmud and contains Chidushim and Halachot.  2 - Personal copy of the author of the Binyan Ariel with a dedication by him on the original binding ”נדבת אדמו”ר אב”ד ור”מ הגאון מוהר”ר שאול נר”ו” . Talmud Bavli, the tractates of Zevachim, Menachot and Bechorot. Printed in Amsterdam in [1765]. Very good condition. Original leather binding with gilt embossments and a gilt dedication. One board is detached.  3 - The rare engraving made in 1730 depicting the figure of the Gaon Rabbi Shaul Lowenstam, the author of the Binyan Ariel.  Written in Hebrew on this rare presswork from [1739]: ”זאת היא צורת שאול מלאך האל, עניו, חסיד, צדיק, מעין חכמה, אריה קורא על מצפה ישראל, שלם חנו, ותהלתו דומה”. This important work was created by the engraving artist Christian Friedrich Fritzsch, who was born in Hamburg and migrated to Holland. His father taught him the profession as a child in his workshop in Schipbek. Fritzsch work as a university engraver at the Georg-August University in Göttingen. He worked as a book illustrator during the years 1742-1772. This engraving is extremely rare.  The Gaon Rabbi Shaul Lowenstam Av Beit Din of Amsterdam (1717-1790) : a leading Rav, a contemporary of the Noda BiYehuda and Rabbi Yitzchak of Hamburg. Was the grandson of the Chacham Zvi and the son of Rabbi Aryeh Leib Av Beit Din of Gluga and Amsterdam. Succeeded his father-in-law, Rabbi Avraham Kahana, as Av Beit Din of Dubno and in 1766, was called to succeed his father, Rabbi Aryeh Leib, as Rav of Amsterdam.  In his books, the Chida, who visited him in Amsterdam, describes with awe the respect the Amsterdam community showed their great Rav (the Chida, who hardly mentions contemporary rabbis in his book Shem Hagedolim, refers to Rabbi Shaul with admiration, stating that he merited reveling in his Torah, modesty and integrity - Ma'arechet Sefarim, 99).  In the affair of the Gett of Cleves, Rabbi Shaul's opinion was crucial. Author of Sefer Binyan Ariel in the Talmud and Torah (Amsterdam, 1778).