Sefer Trumat HaDeshen, by Rabbi Yisrael Isserlein – Venice, 1546.

Lacking title page, 2-190 Leaves. 

Good condition, water stains.

With: Sefer Pesakim U’Ktavim  by Rabbi Yisrael Isserlein – Venice, 1546.

77 leaves. 

Overall in Good condition, title page reinforced, water stains, repaired tears to last 4 pages affecting text, later binding.

23 Antique marginalia in several hands quite possibly some of them are in the hand of his father the famous Gaon Rabbi Eliezer Zussman Sofer of Paks.

Please refer to the Hebrew description text for a brief biography of the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Binyamin Sofer, av beit din of Derecske.


Signatures of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kahana of Humne.

Lengthy dedication by The Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Oelbaum was the Av Beit Din of Cieszyn, to Rabbi Simcha Bunim Greenberger Rav of Pressburg.

Signature & stamps of Rabbi Simcha Bunim Greenberger Rav of Pressburg

The holy Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kahana of Spinka, the beloved son-in-law of the holy Rebbi Avraham of Kerestir who resided with the holy Rebbi Yeshaya’le for three years until Rabbi Yeshaya’s passing. Then he succeeded his father in Humna. Was the son of Rebbi Zvi Hirsch of Spinka the son of the holy Gaon Rebbi Nachman Kahana author of Orchos Chaim, the son-in-law of the holy Rebbe the Imrei Yosef of Spinka. Rabbi Menachem Mendel was the brother of the holy Admorim Rebbi Nachman Kahana of Spinka and Bnei Berak and Rebbi Yosef Meir Kahana of Spinka Jerusalem.

The Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Oelbaum was the Av Beit Din of Cieszyn and after WWII, in Toronto, Canada. He wrote Sheilat Yitzchak. He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Yitzchak Isak Freidrich, the Av Beit Din of Humenne and a student of the Shevet Sofer.

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Trumat HaDeshen - Pesakim U'Ktavim, Venice 1546. Copy of the Hungarian Gaonim Rabbi Shmuel Binyamin Sofer of Derecske, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kahana of Humne, Rabbi Yitzchak Oelbaum of Cieszyn, Rabbi Simcha Bunim Greenberger of Pressburg. Antique Signature

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