Signature on the title page, of Rabbi Shmuel Lob Kauder, the Rosh Beis Din of Prag.
Signature in pencil on the inner binding Hak Yitzckok Yesh’ Hash & in square letters Yitzchok Yeshaya Halberstam.
Rabbi Shmuel Lob Kauder (1766-1838), a close associate of Rabbi Betzalel Ronsburg, and dayan in his Beit Din in Prague. He was a prime disciple of Rabbi Michael Bacharach Rabbi of Prague, and later of Rabbi Elazar Kalir author of Or Chadash, in Kelin. He resided in Kalady (Koloděje), and from 1812 served as rabbi in the communities of Tábor and Budweis (České Budějovice) in Bohemia.
In 1835 he was appointed head of the Prague Beit Din, where he disseminated Torah and was renowned as a prominent halachic authority. Of his many writings, only Responsa Olat Shmuel (on Orach Chaim), Ahavat Emet (homily) and Zikaron BaSefer (on tractate Megillah) were published.
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