Sefer Zera Aharon – Torah novella researched by Rabbi Aharon Yitlash who would sit in judgment and issue instructions in Prague.
Prague, 1797. First edition. A Rare Sefer, has only appeared once at public auction.
The author was a Prague sage in the late 1700s. The book was brought to print by the author’s sons-in-law. From the title page: "He was expert in all realms of Torah, in the revealed and in the hidden, and all his days were spent in the tents of Torah … He sat and judged amongst his people, and guided the glorious city of Prague."
The book bears a beautiful approbation by the Beit Din Hagadol in Prague, stating, inter alia, that it recognizes the author’s greatness. Signatories: Rabbi Michael Bachrach (Rabbi Yair Bachrach’s grandson), Rabbi Shmuel Segal Landau (son of the ‘Noda BiYehudah’) and Rabbi Eliezer Fleklesh (author of Teshuvah MeAhavah).
Signed on flyleaf by the famous Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Zekel Halevi Pollack of Bonyhád.
Signatures of him are Rare!
The great and righteous Tzaddik the holy Rabbi Yitzchak Zekel Halevi Pollak. [1813-1891] was one of the chosen students of Maran the Chatham Sofer whom he greatly admired and gave him great respect for.
He became famous by the power of his teachings and by the power of his prayer.
He never lay on a bed on weekdays, only dozing in his seat in the synagogue, when his strength ran out late at night from studying the Torah. And it is said that with all his fatigue, if the voice of the Torah stopped, he woke up and asked why he did not hear the voice of the Torah. All the teachings of his Rebbei Maran the Chatam Sofer were fluent in his mouth and his words were always encouragement and reinforcement to study persistently and with great desire.
In 1874 he came to Bonyhád to help his son, Rabbi Moshe, in the management of the Yeshiva, and indeed he who saw two tzaddikim and did not come to draw Torah from their mouths. Soon the yeshiva developed and students from afar as near as the two tzadikim, and what a terrific sight it was to see them Torah to the students in the Yeshiva all day and many hours at night, until the day and night almost stopped, the voice of the Torah was heard in Bonyhád.
They also added institutions and founded various societies such as the Shas Society, the Women’s Society, the Young Women’s Society, the Sick Visiting Society, a shelter for the poor. World known geniuses were their Talmidim such as Rabbi Yosef Zvi Dushinsky, Rabbi of Galanta and Jerusalem and the Gaon Rabbi Yosef Leib Sofer Rabbi of Paks and many more.
Also inscribed & signed by his disciple R. Shlomo Stern of Szerdahely.
Signature: Ignatz Keizer, Tokaj
Good condition, wear to corners of first pages, old damaged binding.
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