Sefer Shut Chemdat Shlomo, by the first Rav of Warsaw the Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Lifshitz, the son of Rabbi Itzak of Posna.
First Edition and In the Author’s Lifetime Warsaw, 1836.
Flyleaf with self-dedication in the form of a poem by the Gaon Rabbi Yehiel Matityahu Davis in honor of his Father-in-law Rabbi Eliyahu Mordechai Eisenstein.
Title page & other pages with signatures of both.
7 important marginal notations in the hand of the Gaon Rabbi Yehiel Matityahu Davis.
[4], 2-97; 117 [i.e. 118] leaves. 29.9 Cm.
Stefansky Sifrei Yesod p. 84 of the appendices.
Very Good condition, age stains, 2-3 tiny holes in the margins, later binding.
Rabbi Eliyahu Mordechai Eisenstein (born in 1867) was born to his father Rabbi Avraham who was one of the activists of the old Yishuv and the head of Beis Va\'ad HaKollelim of the city. Held several public positions as the secretary of Va\'ad HaKellali Knesse Yosroel and was the personal secretary of the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Salant.
His Son-in-law the Gaon Rabbi Yehiel Matityahu Davis (? – 1963) was one of the greatest Jerusalem sages, a student of well-known rabbis including Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, Rabbi Eliyahu Klotzkin, Rabbi Selig Reuven Bengis, at whose home he was practically a family member. Rabbi Matityahu was close to the circles of the kana’im and was in close friendship with Rabbi Amram Blau and Rabbi Aharon Katznelboigen. With the passing of his close friend Rabbi Aharon Fisher – the father of Rabbi Shlomo Fisher, the head of the Itari Yeshiva and his brother – in his youth, Rabbi Matityahu offered his guardianship over his sons and raised them in the Torah and took care of their needs and they are the ones who later published his book "Mitat Melech" from the Torah of the rabbi who raised them. His sons: Rabbi Avraham David and Rabbi Ben Zion. His sons-in-law: Rabbi Shmuel David HaCohen Munk of Haifa, Rabbi Mordechai Cartman, and Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Lemberger.
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