Tosefet Ketubah Document between the couple Hachaver Yeshoua Called Zelig son of Hachaver Shmuel, & Gittel daughter of Hachaver Shlomo.One of the witneses is R. Zelig Kestenbaum.
Underneath certfication of the document & the witneses, 3 lines & signature in the Holy hand of the Gaon & Tzadik Rabbi Shimon Oppenheim (Kromau) Rosh Beth Din of Pest. Reverse side has one line in his Holy hand.
Pest, 1839. 40.4 Cm.
His Holy handwriting is very rare!
The famous Gaon & Tzadik Rabbi Shimon Oppenheim (Kromau) Rosh Beth Din of Pest (now a part of Budapest) was born in 1749 (or 1753) in the city of Boskowitz to his father, the Rabbi David Kromau-Oppenheim. He was a student of the Gaon Rabbi Wolf Boskowitz Ab”d Kolin and Prostitz. He married Slava, the daughter of the rabbi of Freistadt the Gaon Rabbi Yehuda Leib Oppenheim zt’l, who was his uncle. In the following years he lived in Prague and preached there Torah. From the year 1793 he he taught Torah in Freistadt.
At the age of 26, he published his first Sefer Amud Hashacar. In the preface to the Sefer, his student Rabbi Moshe Mazulshin printed poems including poems about the author’s genius. This caused outrage among many of the Jews of Prague (including their Rabbi the Noda Beyehuda), which was a city full of sages and writers. They felt that a young man had no right to publish such praise at the beginning of his Sefer. As a result, Rabbi Shimon changed the cover, when the new cover only had minimal titles.
In 1801 he was appointed as Dayan in Pest where he served for 50 continuous years.
He passed away there in 1851 at the ripe old age of 102. In recent years his Kever is a popular stop for many, they say the prayer he authored as he instructed to be inscribed on his Matzeivah.
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