Yechiel Michel ben Tzvi Hirsch. LeZecher LeYisrael [commentary to Pirkei Avoth and novellae on Talmud tractates Baba Metziah, Gittin and Chullin]

Estimate

$400–$600

Hammer price

Not recorded

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author

(ELIJAH, GAON OF VILNA).

printer

Menachem Mann-Simcha Zimel

Place

Vilna - Grodno

Publication

1833

Description

First edition.

references

Vinograd, Vilna 313.

summary

The author records here that he studied and prayed in the Beth Hamidrash of the Vilna Gaon, whose “fondness and affection did not leave me.” After remaining a disciple of R. Chaim of Volozhin for seven years, he then served as one of the first founding Roshei Yeshiva of Volozhin. He later established his own Yeshiva in Minsk and thanks R. Chaim for guiding him in the appropriate manner by which to administer a Yeshiva. See M. Tzinowitz, Eitz Chaim-Toldoth Yeshivath Volozhin (1972) pp. 92, 441-46.

ff. (8), 36, 10. Some staining. Contemporary boards. 4to.

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