Sefer Shirat Moshe, with the addition of Tzavaat Moshe, translated into Yiddish. The third in this series is Sefer HaPedut VehaPurkan, authored by Rabbi Saadia Gaon [Altona 1763, with an introduction by Rabbi Yaakov Emden]. Brought to print by Rabbi Yehoshua ben Rabbi Shlomo Segal Naftaliovitz of Pressburg.

Pressburg, 1875. Printed by Katttritsch and Zimmerman. Approbation of Maran the Shevet Sofer.

This edition is rare and has never appeared at a public auction.

On the title page, there is an inscription "Belongs to me, the small one, Shimshon Kolka" – a student of Rabbi Baruch Te’omim, author of "Baruch Taam". He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Nachum Tribitsch of Nikolsburg, one of the prominent students of the Chatam Sofer, who mentions him in his writings. He served as the head of the rabbinical court in Postel-Podivin (Moravia).

48 pp.  18.2 cm.


Overall Great condition, slight frayed edges, original binding damaged.

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Poems & Will of Maran the Chatam Sofer, Pressburg 1875. Rare edition. Inscription by Rabbi Shimshon Kolka.

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