Sefer Netivot Hamishpat, Konigsberg.
On the fly leaf is a nice manuscript self dedication by Rabbi Moshe Halevi Pollak, writing that he received it as a wedding gift from the Chevras Bachurim in Szerdahelyi.
Another signature & his stamp o the Title Page. Small marginal Hagaha in his writing on Pg. 58.
Stamp of his son the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Halevi Pollack a Dyayan & Maggid in Boniyad.
The Gaon & Tzadik Rabbi Moshe Halevi Pollack was born in 1845 in Szerdahelyi. He was the son of Rabbi Yitzchak Zekel of Bonyhád. In his youth Rabbi Moshe studied under the Ksav Sofer in Pressburg and under the Gaon Rabbi Yehuda Assad.
Rabbi Moshe served as Av Beit Din and rosh yeshiva in Bonyhád and a marbitz Torah in his time who served as Rav and mentor to many future Rabbanim in Hungary. He was called ‘A celebrated genius and tzaddik’ who battled to preserve. He was a tremendous gaon and fought with mesiras nefesh for Torah observance and against modern ideas. He died relatively young in 1889.
The gaon Rabbi Avraham Segal Pollack was born in 1870. He was a dayan and moreh tzedek of Bonyhád. He was a tremendous gaon and huge expert, very well-known in the generation before the Holocaust. Before the age of 19, he was already asked to become Av Beit Din. He, his father, and grandfather were three generations who studied at the Pressburg yeshiva, and he heard much from them about the Chata"m Sofer and his disciples. His father was the gaon Rabbi Moshe Segal, Av Beit Din of Bonyhád and author of VaYedaber Moshe and Tikkun Moshe, a disciple of the Ktav Sofer, and the son of Rabbi Yitzchak Zekkel HaLevi Pollack ztz"l, primary disciple of Rabbeinu, the Chata"m Sofer.
Rabbi Avraham Segal Pollack himself also studied at the yeshivah of the author of Shevet Sofer, alongside studying with his father and grandfather. His was martyred in Auschwitz in 1944 Hy”d.. His novellae were printed in his father’s books and in the VaYilaket Yosef anthology.
Very nice condition, Front cover detached, lacking back cover.
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