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From the Treasury of the Sefarim of Rabbi Nosson Adler! Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim – Amsterdam, 1720 – With Glosses in the Holy Handwriting of the Holy Gaon Rabbi Nosson Adler! On the front guard leaf is an ownership inscription: ”שייך לאדמ”ו מהור”ר נתן כ”ץ אדלר מפראנקפורט לע”ע שנתקנ”ב לפ”ק” As is known, Rabbi Nosson Adler wrote very little, and even his glosses on his Sefarim are famously extremely concise and allusive. Hagaon Hatzaddik Rabbi Zvi Binyamin Auerbach, author of Nachal Eshkol, composed an entire work to explain the allusions in his glosses on the Mishnayot. The holy Gaon, Ha'Nesher Ha'Gadol, Rabbi Nosson HaKohen Adler (1741–1800), from his youth was known as gifted, possessing rare talents, and inclined to conduct himself with holiness and abstinence. Rabbeinu the Chida applied to him the verse:  ”הנה נא ידעתי כי איש אלקים קדוש הוא עובר עלינו תמיד” He was the foremost teacher of Maran the Chasam Sofer, who said of him with awe: 'ותחסרהו מעט מאלוקים' and crowned him with the title 'החסיד שבכהונה'. He was a disciple of the author of Pnei Yehoshua and Rabbi Moshe Rappf; his principal teacher was Rabbi David Teveli Katz Schiff, who later became the Ashkenazi Rabbi of London. He studied Kabbalah with Rabbi Avraham Abusch, who was the Rabbi of the city. The greatest of his disciples, Maran the Chasam Sofer, called him 'החסיד שבכהונה' due to his piety and holiness, and also referred to him simply as “the Kohen”, while calling his other Rebbe, the author of HaHafla’ah, “the Levi.” He was a godly Kabbalist and a miracle worker accustomed to wonders, and the Chasam Sofer testified that he himself saw him using and performing acts with the Holy Names. Nevertheless, the Chasam Sofer testified to his students that his Rebbe was able to perform wonders even without the Holy Names, such as Kefitzas Haderech (kefitzat haderech). Certified by all the experts. On the front and rear guard pages, there are signatures and ownership inscriptions from various rabbis, among them: Rabbi Binyamin Kratzin, Av Beit Din of Hana; Rabbi Kaufman Magisa of Kutno; Rabbi Zelig Zigel [?] of Frankfurt; and Rabbi Pinchas son of Rabbi Shimshon. [3], lying folio. 31 cm. Fair to good condition. Wear and water stains on some leaves. All leaves underwent professional restoration. Original antique leather binding, with clasps, restored.