Sefer Yam Shel Shlomo on Tractate Beitzah—halachic clarifications from the Talmud and early sages—authored by Rabbi Shlomo Luria [Maharshal].
Offenbach, printed by Seligman Reis, 1718.
On the title page is the signature of the renowned righteous Gaon Rabbi Avraham Bing, Av Beit Din of Würzburg.
Rabbi Avraham Bing (1752–1841) was one of the foremost rabbis and rosh yeshivas in Germany, regarded as a rabbi of "all the diaspora of Ashkenaz." He was the teacher of the author of Aruch LaNer and Rabbi Yitzchak Dov Bamberger. Rabbi Bing taught Torah and served as a dayan in Offenbach and Frankfurt am Main. During his time in Frankfurt, he was a close associate and student of Rabbi Natan Adler and a close friend of Rabbi Moshe Sofer, the Chatam Sofer, who was somewhat younger than he. In 1796, he was appointed as the chief rabbi and Av Beit Din of the Würzburg region, residing in the town of Heidingsfeld. Following the renewal of the Jewish community in the city of Würzburg in the early 19th century, he moved to Würzburg in 1814, transferring the rabbinic office of Würzburg from Heidingsfeld to the capital, Würzburg.
Many prominent German rabbis were his students in the large yeshiva in Würzburg, as were their students. Among them were Rabbi Yaakov Ettlinger, author of Aruch LaNer; Rabbi Yitzchak Dov Bamberger, rabbi of Würzburg; Rabbi Yitzchak Bernays, Av Beit Din of Hamburg (teacher of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and Rabbi Azriel Hildesheimer); Rabbi Yehosef Schwarz, author of Tevuot HaAretz; Rabbi Eliezer Bergman, one of the founders of the Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem; and Rabbi Abraham Rice, a pioneer of Orthodoxy in the United States. For more on his life, see Rabbi Yehuda Aharon Halevi Horowitz’s article, "The Gaon Rabbi Avraham Halevi Bing and His Yeshiva in Würzburg" (Yeshurun Collection, Vol. 8, Adar 5761 [2001], pp. 780–785).
This volume also includes a record and signature by Rabbi Asher Buttenwieser of Wassertrüdingen from 1842, and an ancient signature of "Wolf Chaim." There is also an erased ownership record, "Wolf Mannheim."
Laemmlein Buttenwieser (Yiddish: אשר לעמלע בן יוסף אריה בוטענווייזער, romanized: Osher Lemle ben Yosef Aryeh Butenvayzer; January 16, 1825 – September 23, 1901) was a German-born Talmudist, linguist, and educator.
Buttenwieser was born in Wassertrüdingen, Bavaria on January 16, 1825. He was descended from a long line of rabbis: his father was rabbi of Wassertrüdingen, and his grandfather and great-grandfather were rabbis at Buttenwiesen. He received his education at the gymnasium in Aschaffenburg and at the Universities of Würzburg and Prague, where he also studied for the rabbinate. He received his semikhah from Seligman Baer Bamberger of Würzburg and from Rabbis Rapoport and Samuel Freund of Prague.
In July 1854, Buttenwieser emigrated to the United States, where he initially worked as a rabbi. However, he did not enjoy this work and instead became a teacher of languages. He taught at the Talmud Yelodim School in Cincinnati and from 1861 worked as an instructor at the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia and at the short-lived Maimonides College in that city In 1873, he moved to New York, where he worked as a private tutor in Hebrew and Talmudic studies. That same year, he was appointed as a teacher of languages in the New York City public schools, a position he held until his retirement in 1886.
He died at his home in New York City on Yom Kippur, September 23, 1901, after a two weeks’ illness. He was survived by his wife, two daughters, and one son, Joseph L. Buttenwieser, a successful real estate dealer and broker.
References50 Leaves. 36.2 cm.
Overall Fair condition, marginal stains and water stains, first few pages have heavily frayed edges, some worming mostly marginal, some loose pages, original binding damaged.
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