Sefer Shem MiShmuel . Only edition. Munkacs, 1940.
Very good condition, Original binding.
The Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Engel, rabbi of Radomyshl (1853-1935), a leading Galician Torah scholar and foremost halachic authority of his generation. A prime disciple of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz and of his son Rebbe Yechezkel Halberstam of Shinova. At the young age of 18, he was appointed rabbi of Biłgoraj (Poland). In 1879, he was compelled to leave Poland, and resided for a couple of years in Rudnik (Galicia) at the home of his friend Rabbi Baruch Halberstam of Gorlitz and together they studied Torah, Halacha and Kabbalah.
In 1881, he was appointed Rabbi of Dukla (Galicia) and in ca. 1887, of Radomyshl (Galicia). During WWI, he fled to Waitzen (Vác, Hungary) and in 1918, he wandered further and settled in Kashoi (Košice), were he headed of the Beit Din, remaining there until his passing. His son R. Chaim Engel succeeded him in the Radomyshl rabbinate. R Shmuel Engel authored the eight-book Responsa Maharash series, Chiddushei Maharash on the Talmud, Siftei Maharash on the Torah and more.
Flyleaf with dedication by his grandson Rabbi Elchanan (Chuna) Halperin (1922-2015) was the Av Beit Din of Radomyśl and grandson of the Divrei Chaim from both parents. He established the Beit Midrash and Yeshiva in Golder’s Green, London, and served as president of the United Haredi Community Association in London. He was the in-law of many gedolim of his generation, including father-in-law to: Admor of Chernobyl, Ga’avad of Makova in Kiryat Ata, the Admor of Nadvorna-Haifa and the Rosh Yeshiva of Tshebin Rabbi Yosef Moshe Schneerson, shlita. He was known as a figure of the ancient kind of chassidut, a remnant of earlier generations.
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