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Bidding Information
Lot #    15555
Auction End Date    9/5/2006 11:38:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Letter by R. Benjamin Zev Wolf ha-Kohen Rapaport
Title (Hebrew)    כתב מה'ר בנימין זאב וואלף הכהן ראפאפארט, מפאפא
Author    [Ms.]
City    Papa
Publication Date    1832
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   [1] p., 216:176 mm., light age staining, cxreased on folds, ink on paper, signed and dated.
          
Detailed
Description
   R. Benjamin Zev Wolf b. Isaac ha-Kohen Rapaport (1754–1837), Hungarian rabbi. His father Isaac and his grandfather came from Fuerth in Germany to Nikolsburg, where Benjamin was born. In 1771 R. Rapoport went, as was the custom with many Moravians, to nearby Hungary in order to evade the ban on Jewish marriages of other than the eldest son in force at the time in Moravia. He settled in Obuda (now part of Budapest) and married the daughter of David Boskovitz, one of the leaders of the community. He lived with his father-in-law for ten years, engaging in studying and teaching. In 1781 he was appointed rabbi of the community of Papa in Hungary, where he served until his passing. This community, founded in 1749, made considerable progress during the period of his office.

An erudite and diligent scholar R. Rapoport published during his lifetime, Simlat Binyamin u-Vigdei Kehunnah (Dyhrenfurth, 1788) on the Shulhan Arukh Yoreh De'ah, but he left a number of works in manuscript, some of which were published after his death, among them Edut le-Yisrael on tractate Makkot with additions by his son (Pressburg, 1839). It constitutes the third part of his Masat Binyamin. It is related that R. Wolf did not complete a meal without simultaneously completing a tractate of the Talmud. His relative wealth allowed to to donate well in excess of the customary tithing. Above all his Yeshiva was attended by many students who sought his innovative methods of teaching.

          
Reference
Description
   Eleph Ketav (1996) p. 103
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Hungary
  
Subject
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Letters:    Checked
  
Kind of Judaica