Contract attesting the sale of a house in Kempen (today Kępno, Poland). Entirely written & signed in his holy hand. Kempen 1791.
The Holy Gain & Tzadik Rabbi Israel Jonah son of Rabbi Joseph Halevi Landau, (d. 1824), rabbi and author.
He belonged to a well-known rabbinical family. In his youth he was av bet din of Lubomil and from 1786 served in Kempen, Posen region. Among his published works are Me’on ha-Berakhot (Dyhrenfurth, 1816), novellae on tractate Berakhot, which is the first part of his work Keneset Yisrael (the other parts remained unpublished); Shirat Yisrael (1897), expositions of the Bible, aggadot in the Talmud, and Midrashim; Ein ha-Bedolaḥ (1901), novellae to tractates of the Talmud (Pesaḥim, Megillah, Yoma, Sukkah, and Rosh ha-Shanah); and Aleh de-Yonah (1934), expositions of aggadot in the Jerusalem Talmud of Zevaḥim and Mo’ed.
He was also a well-known kabbalist, and a request to him from Rabbi Akiva Eger for an amulet for the sick of Posen has been preserved. His son joseph samuel (1800–1836) was appointed to succeed his father as rabbi of Kempen on the recommendation of Akiva Eger. Joseph Samuel was the author of Mishkan Shiloh, of which only one part, Kur ha-Beḥinah (Breslau, 1837), was published, comprising 25 responsa and seven sermons – the last in honor of Emperor Frederick William iii. In the introduction the author refers to many works of his still in manuscript. His Goren Atad (Warsaw, 1837), a memorial sermon on Jehiel Michael Ettinger, has also been published. He corresponded on halakhah with the leading rabbis of his time, including Akiva Eger, Ephraim Zalman Margulies, and Solomon Zalman Posner
His Holy hand writing is extremely rare! & has never appeared at public auction.
33.5 X 20 Cm.
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