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Bidding Information
Lot #    13958
Auction End Date    4/25/2006 10:10:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Certificate by R. Isaac Oplatka of Prague
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר יצחק אופלאטקה מפראג
Author    [Ms.]
City    Jerusalem
Publication Date    1900
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1] p., 262:203 mm., light age staining, printed form, signed and dated in ink.
          
Detailed
Description		    Written two months before his passing. R. Isaac b. Mordecai Oplatka of Prague (c.1820-1900) was born in Prague. He was a devoted student and disciple of the Hatam Sofer who asked him to emigrate to Erez Israel. He did so in 1838 and never left the Holy Land thereafter. He married the daughter of R. Barukh Ayash, grandson of the Rishon LeZion, R. Jacob Moses Ayash. R. Isaac, an erudite talmudic scholar wrote Peri Yitzhak (Jerusalem 1909) novellae to several Talmudic tractates, only a small part was published.
          
Reference
Description		    Talmudei Hatam Sofer
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
  
Subject
History:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Other:    Certificate
  
Kind of Judaica