Sefer Yalkut Shimoni, Zolkow 1858.
On fly leaf many handstamps (In Hungarian, one in Hebrew) of the Famous Gaon Rabbi Yeshayahu Zilberstein of Vietzen (Vac) the author of ‘Maasai Lemelech’.
Signature: Menachem Meir Yakobovitch
Signature: Yosef Aharon Frankel (of Vietzen).
Signature: Moshe Yitzchok Tzvi Goldstein of Veitzen, 1891.
Signature in English: Kalman Meiszner.
Good condition, light worming in the upper margins of a few Pgs, original binding.
Rabbi Yeshaya Zilberstein (1857-1930), one of the most prominent rabbis of Hungary before the Holocaust, the author of the well-known book "Maasai La’Melech" on the Rambam. His father was Rabbi David Leib Zilberstein, author of "Shvilei David" on the Shulchan Aruch.
He received his ordination from Rabbi Chaim Sofer of Munkatch, Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Hersh Manheimer of Ungvar and Rabbi Avraham Yehuda Schwartz the ‘Kol Aryeh’.
In 1884, when he was only 27 years old, he became rabbi and Av Beit Din of Vietzen. He corresponded with the greatest rabbis of Hungary such as the Maharm Schick, Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Teitelbaum, the Maharsham of Berezhany and more. His responses were published in the Maharam Schick Responsa. He approbated many books. His halachic rulings are cited in many Halacha books. He had hundreds of disciples, some of which were most prominent rabbis such as the Rebbe, Rabbi Aharon Roth author of "Shomer Emunim".
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