Sefer HaMitzvot by the Rambam. Berlin, 1733.
Ownership inscription on the title page ‘‘Belongs to the Gaon Mahar”m Rabin”; rear flyleaf with inscriptions Marcus Rabin, Mandel Horowitz”
As is well known, there is uncertainty when exactly the family name was changed from Rabin to Horowitz, the present inscriptions point to the evidence that Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Linsk (the first) was already named Horowitz at some point in his life.
Approved by his grandsons Harav Shmuel Shmelke Horowitz, and his brother Harav Abraham Menachem Horowitz Shlit”a, chairman of Mosdos Linsk & authors of the wonderful Sefer ‘Zara Kadisha’ about Rabbi Menachem Mendel Rabin & his illustrious family.
Very Rare! Today only 2 letters in his Holy hand are known, & one more Sefer that belonged to him.
The holy Gaon Rabbi Menachem Mendel Rabin was born circa 1750, to his father Rabbi Yaakov Rabin Rabbi of Linsk-Liska [previously he served in his hometown -Baligród], son of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Rabbi of Baligród, son of Rabbi Moshe Rabbi of Baligród, From a line of rabbis and saints who served several generations in the rabbinate of the city of Baligród, up to Rabbi Naftali Zvi Rabin who was the first rabbi of the in Baligród, he rests in Torna. [According to the tradition of the Linsk rabbis].
He married Mrs. Bayla, the daughter of the holy genius Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi Horowitz Rabbi of Hamburg, son of Rabbi Yaakov Yokal Halevi Horowitz Rabbi of Glugo, son of Rabbi Meir Halevi Horowitz Rabbi of Tiktin, from the lineage of the illustrious Horowitz family, [some wrote that he is a descendant of the Shela], and a descendant of the Rabbi Hashel. About this matchmaking, it is said that it was during the gathering of the rabbis as part of the Four Land Council [Vaad Arbah Ha’Ratzot], where the two rabbis met, Rabbi Yitzhak Horovitz Rabbi of Hamburg, and Rabbi Yaakov Rabin Rabbi of Linsk, and they finished the Shidduch there.
His father-in-law’s house was a house of Torah, and apart from the rabbinic sons of R. Itzikel Hamburger, his famous son-in-laws were, the Gaon Rabbi Meshulam Igra Abd Tismanitz, the Gaon Rabbi Jacobka Landau son of the Nodah Beyehudah, Rabbi Yishchar Dov Abd Hanover, and more. And from the descendants of Rabbi Itzikal, many families branched out, including Torah greats, authors, rabbis, and well-known teaching teachers. Hundreds and thousands related to him, including those with the Horwitz family name, and those with other surnames in all communities of Israel, until these days. (Yitzchak Raphael, Toldot Rabeinu, at the head of the Sefer ‘Mishnat HaLevi’, printed from Rabbi Itzikal’s Torah, by Rabbi Kook’s institution).
At first, Rabbi Menachem Mendel served as Rabbi of Leshnov, where his son Rebbi Naftali Zvi of Ropshitz was born. He had a yeshiva for elite students.
He died in 23 Tishrei 1804, and rests is in the city of Linsk, near the grave of his father, the Gaon Rabbi Ya’akov.
The most famous among the sons of Rabbi Menachem Mendel, the Holy Gaon Rebbi Naftali Tזvi Horowitz Abd Ropshitz, who previously filled his father’s place in the rabbinate of the city of Linsk.
His other sons are: Rabbi Yisrael Ya’akov Yokel Horowitz Abd Bolhov, who married the daughter of the Gebir Rabbi Nachum Zoizmir of Stry, unlike his father and his other brothers, Rabbi Yokel was not among the Chassidim.
Rabbi Shmuel Shmelka Horowitz Rabb ofi Raman and Bar, the son-in-law of the holy Gaon, Rabbi Chaim Rabbi Chernovitz, the Beer Mayim Chaim.
Rabbi Yehoshua Heshel Horowitz Abd Yaniv, and his rabbinic spouse Mrs. Tzipora Golda, daughter of Rabbi Avraham David Abd Satnov, in his old age Rabbi Yehoshua Heshel lived in Brod and died there in 1828.
And he also had one daughter, Mrs. Rachel, wife of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch, Magid of Chirev.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel’s teachings were included in his son’s Sefer ‘Likoto Moram’, and were recently printed as a Sefer in its own right, ‘Chalak Tzadik’, for his history see at length in the wonderful Sefer Zarah Kadisha (expanded edition, N.Y. 2021).
Overall Good condition. stains, title page loose from text block, title page has marginal tears and some marginal worming, original binding damaged, front cover detached from text block. 19 Cm.
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