DISCOVERY! UNKNOWN HALACHIC RULING BY RABBI SHMUEL SHMELKA HOROWITZ OF NIKOLSBURG, HANDWRITTEN ON LEAVES OF ...

DISCOVERY! UNKNOWN HALACHIC RULING BY RABBI SHMUEL SHMELKA HOROWITZ OF NIKOLSBURG, HANDWRITTEN ON LEAVES OF HEISHIV MOSHE.

Shaalos Uteshuvos Heishiv Moshe by Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum of Ujhely, First Edition, Lemberg 1866. Bound together with Tum Taam Vadaas on Hilchos Tereifos by Rabbi Shlomo Kluger of Brody, First edition, Lemberg 1860.

Stefanski, Chassidus 187

Ownership inscriptions: ‘ Meir David, Shochet of Kretchnif’ and ‘Yosef Yehoshua Gross, Rabbi of Karoly, son-in-law of the Rabbi of Kosice’

The book contains four handwritten notes. The back fly-leaf contains many handwritten notes. One of the notes includes the following passage: ‘and I heard in the name of my grandfather, the Rabbi of Sighet ... and I asked ... the Rabbi of Sighet [about this] and he replied that this is a tradition that he received from his grandfather, who received it from the holy Rebbe of Lublin, who received it from the gaon the holy Rebbe Reb Shmelka of Nikolsburg’.

This is a sensational discovery – a previously unknown halachic ruling by a disciple of the Maggid of Mezheritch, previously unpublished.

Rabbi Shmuel Shmelka Horowitz (1726-1778), son of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh of Czortkow. Together with his brother Rabbi Pinchas of Frankfurt, he was attracted to the chassidic movement and studied under the Maggid of Mezheritch. Rabbi of Ritchwal, Sieniawa and Nikolsburg, renowned for his great rabbinic scholarship and as a chassidic leader. Author of Divrei Shmuel, Imrei Shmuel, and Nezir Hashem.

Rabbi Yosef Yehoshua Gross (d. 1986), disciple and son-in-law of Rabbi Shaul Brach of Kosice. Lost his wife and children in WWII, settled in Eretz Yisrael and later in America, where he established Beis Hamedrash Givath Shaul in New York.

[1], 38, 82, [4], 66, 81 pp. 24.5 x 37 cm. Very good condition. Old binding.