Midrash Tehilim Rabatha [commentary to the Book of Psalms]. * Bound With: MIDRASH SHMUEL [commentary to the Book of Samuel]. * And: Midrash Mishlei [commentary to the Book of Proverbs]
AUCTION 47 |
Thursday, December 10th,
2009 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art
Lot 221
(MIDRASH).
Midrash Tehilim Rabatha [commentary to the Book of Psalms]. * Bound With: MIDRASH SHMUEL [commentary to the Book of Samuel]. * And: Midrash Mishlei [commentary to the Book of Proverbs]
Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1546
Est: $2,000 - $2,500
PRICE REALIZED $3,600
ISAAC DOV HALEVI BAMBERGER ("WUERZBURGER RAV") COPY WITH HIS MARGINAL NOTES.
Rabbi Isaac Dov Halevi (Seligmann Baer) Bamberger (1807-1878) was perhaps the greatest Talmudist in Germany and the doyen of the Orthodox rabbinate. In Wuerzburg, where he assumed the rabbinate in 1840, he established an important yeshivah, the last of its kind in Germany. His most significant literary production was his edition of the medieval halakhic work of R. Isaac ibn Ghayyat, Sha'arei Simcha, which he published together with his commentary "Yitzchak Yeranen" (Fuerth, 1861-62). Hundreds of Bamberger's responsa were published in the two-volume She'eloth u-Teshuvoth Yad Halevi (Jerusalem, 1965-87).
At the time of the historic "Austritt" from the general Frankfurt Jewish community by R. Samson Raphael Hirsch and his followers, the Wuerzburger Rav opposed the secession. See E.M. Klugman, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1996), pp.160-171; EJ, Vol. IV, cols. 154-156