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A complete composition in the holy autograph of Rabbi Sender Kahana Shapira, Av Beit Din of Krinik – father of Rabbi Avraham Dov Kahana Shapira, author of Devar Avraham of Kovno - Tractate Zevachim – Vilna Edition, 1896   Densely filled throughout with hundreds, even thousands, of notes, emendations, and novellae — all in the holy autograph hand of one of Lithuania’s saintly sages and miracle-workers, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Sender Kahana Shapira, Av Beit Din of Krinik. Before us is a complete original composition on Tractate Zevachim, written across the margins of the rabbi’s personal Talmud volume — entirely in his own handwriting. The marginalia and glosses are by the holy gaon and miracle-worker Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Sender Kahana Shapira, Av Beit Din of Krinik, author of Chiddushei HaGras”S, disciple-colleague of the Beit HaLevi and study partner of Rabbi Chaim HaLevi Soloveitchik of Brisk. This is a primary and original manuscript from the hand of one of the great Lithuanian Torah giants. Most of these annotations were later printed in Chiddushei HaGras”S (Jerusalem Institute, 1993), though several of the glosses appearing here were never published, as noted by the editor himself in the book’s introduction. A thick, large volume of Tractate Zevachim, Talmud Bavli, Vilna printing, 1896. Densely annotated throughout with handwritten glosses in the author’s own ink, filling the margins and interlinear spaces — some extending over half a page. Condition: Fair. Stains, tears to some leaves, minor marginal losses, several leaves detached. New, elegant binding. Biographical Note Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Sender Kahana Shapira (1851–1923) served as rabbi of the town of Krinik, Poland, until his immigration to the Land of Israel. He was a grandson of Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin. A disciple and colleague of the Beit HaLevi and of the Rogatchover Gaon, he was also the study partner of Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk. Renowned as both a Torah genius and a saintly miracle worker, he was famous for his profound scholarship, piety, and spiritual powers; his blessings were widely sought and reputed to be fulfilled. He was known as an extraordinarily sharp and wide-ranging scholar, well-versed in all areas of Torah. The liturgical melodies (nusach) he composed are still sung today in Lithuanian-style yeshivot and synagogues following the Hebron Yeshiva tradition. In 1885 (תרמ״ה), he founded the “Anaf Etz Chaim” Yeshiva in Krinik; in 1903 he left its leadership, succeeded by Rabbi Shimon Shkop. After World War I, he immigrated to the Land of Israel, where he lived until his passing. His novellae on Seder Nashim and Seder Kodashim were published under the title Chiddushei HaGras”S by Machon Yerushalayim (Jerusalem, 1993). Among his distinguished disciples were Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky, Rosh Yeshiva of Torah Vodaath (Brooklyn), and Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman, later Chief Rabbi of Israel. His famous son was Rabbi Avraham Dov Kahana Shapira, Rabbi of Kovno and author of Responsa Devar Avraham.