With commentary Mayenei Yeshu’oth by Yonathan Shimon Frankel-Te’omim

(HAGADAH)

Chave Grosman

Lemberg

1840

FIRST EDITION. Title within typographical border. On title, inscription of former owner: “R. Ze’ev Shachor of the Land of Israel.”

Yudlov 828; Yaari 597; Vinograd, Lemberg 689

Scarce Hagadah, no copy located in the JNUL. As neither Yaari nor Yudlov provide pagination, one may assume that no copy was available to them for inspection. In fact, from Yudlov’s description it becomes clear that he was merely copying a listing recorded by Ben-Yaakov. (Yudlov speculates that Ben-Yaakov erred when he wrote “Mayenei Yeshu’oth,” and that he should have written “Yesha Elokim,” Lemberg, circa 1835. The truth is, “Yesha Elokim” is a different work by the same author. Indeed on the title page of our Hagadah, the author refers to this earlier work of his). The former owner of this Hagadah, R. Ze’ev (or Velvel) Shachor-Berlin was a well-to-do Jerusalem-based industrialist (he busied himself in the business of oil-fields) and was often involved in communal affairs. He was the “mechutan” (in-law) of the Gaon R. Jacob Moses Charlop, and father of the prodigy R. Moses Leib Shachor. The Shachor-Berlins were distantly related to the Soloveitchik Family, and when the Brisker Rav, R. Isaac Ze’ev Soloveitchik and his sons first arrived in Jerusalem during World War Two, they were the guests of R. Ze’ev Shachor. Another member of the extended Shachor-Berlin family was the (first) wife of the Grand Rabbi of Ger, Abraham Mordecai Alter