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The exampler of HaGaon HaTzaddik Rabbi Shaul Brach. Shu”t Rivash. Lemberg, 1805. Sefer Bar Sheshes, responsa of Rabbeinu Yitzchak ben Sheshes. Printed by Naftali Hertz Grossmann, Lemberg, 1805. Pedigreed exampler! [1], 164, [3] leaves. With ownership stamps of Rabbi Shaul Brach of Nitra, Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Friedman of Kashau, and stamps of the grandsons of Harav HaKadosh of Tisza Szalka — HaGaon Rabbi Yoel Tzvi Roth, Av Beis Din of Tisza Szalka. Also, with the handwritten signature of Rabbi “Yisrael Chaim ben Rabbi A. Friedman” and a signature of Rabbi Shlomo Deutsch, Av Beiד Din of Nitra. HaGaon HaKadosh Rabbi Shaul Brach of Nitra (1865–1940) — born in Nitra, and throughout his life signed his stamp “Shaul Brach of Nitra.” He studied Torah under Maran the Maharam Schick and the Ksav Sofer, and traveled to the Tzaddikim of Sanz, Sighet, and the Tzaddikim of Belz. He became most renowned as Av Beis Din of Kashau, and most of the leading Rabbis of Hungary studied in the famous Yeshivah that he established there. He fought the battles of Hashem with great strength and was often referred to as “Shaul Bechir Hashem.” HaGaon Rabbi Shlomo Deutsch, Av Beis Din of Nitra (1813–1880) — Known as ”Rabbi Shlomo Szerdahely, ” he was a prominent Rosh Yeshiva and Av Beis Din in Nitra, and Av Beit Din of Ipolyság. He was a disciple of leading students of the Gaon Rabbi Yehuda Aszód and the Chasam Sofer, and was among the greatest Rabbis of Hungary. Rabbi Deutsch was the teacher of the holy Gaon Rabbi Shaul Brach, and is frequently cited in the responsa literature of the greatest contemporary halachic authorities of his generation. HaGaon HaKadosh Rabbi Yoel Tzvi ben Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Roth (1898–1958) — Av Beis Din and Rosh Mesivta of Tisza Szalka and its environs, and Rav of his uncle’s Beis Midrash in Kleinwardein. Great-grandson of HaGaon HaKadosh Rabbi Yoel Tzvi, author of Shu”t Beis HaYotzer, and named after him. Son-in-law of Rabbi Chaim Shlomo HaLevi Rotenberg, Admor and Av Beis Din of Kassa, author of Shemuah Tovah, son of Harav HaKadosh, author of Bnei Sheloshim. He was a disciple of his uncle, Rabbi Chaim Meshulam Fish Spitzer, Av Beis Din of Járma, and of his stepfather, Rabbi Aharon Yeshayah Fish of Odessa. He received rabbinic ordination from HaGaon the Maharshag. During the Holocaust, he was deported to a labor camp, and nearly his entire family perished. After the war he immigrated to Brooklyn, where he served as Rav of Kahal Beis HaYotzer. He authored Me’at Tzori on Tractate Kerisos, Shaarei Middos on the Thirteen Hermeneutical Principles of the Torah (the manuscript of this work was lost during the Holocaust, and he rewrote it in America while ill, before his passing), and Chelev Chaggai on Tractate Chagigah. He was renowned for his righteousness, Chassidus, and Torah scholarship. His mastery of all areas of Torah was extraordinary, having committed to memory the Talmud Bavli, Talmud Yerushalmi, Sifra, Sifrei, other Midrashim, and the writings of the Ari. Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Friedman (1930–2006) — son of Rabbi Yehoshua Falk Friedman, HY”D, son-in-law of Rabbi Shaul Brach, Av Beis Din of Kashau. Rabbi Yosef Tzvi suffered in the extermination camps in his youth and survived the Holocaust and its horrors. He succeeded in saving several examplers of his grandfather’s Sefarim, and after the Second World War immigrated to New York, where, through great effort, he published his grandfather’s Sefarim and part of his manuscripts. Half-leather binding with a label on the spine, stains, repairs at the margins of the final leaves. Good condition.