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Lot #    15922
Auction End Date    10/24/2006 10:59:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Homat Esh
Title (Hebrew)    חומת אש
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Menahem ben Meir Eisenstadter
City    Paks
Publisher    Meir ha-Levi Rosenbaum
Publication Date    1906
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [4], 60, [2] ff., quarto, 248:185 mm., wide margins, usual light age staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed and taped.
          
Detailed
Description		    Only edition of the aggadic novellae on the Torah, haftorot, Psalms, five Megillot, and Pirkei Avot, as well as some novellae and eulogies by R. Menahem ben Meir Eisenstadter, av bet din Ungvar. The text is accompanied by novellae from R. David Deutsch (Ohel David), and R. Meir Eshav (Imrei Esh), respectively the author’s grandfather and father. On the verso of the title page is the caution against mistaking the word goi as applying to current peoples. Homat Esh has approbations from R. Joshua Baruch Reinetz amd R. Hayyim Halberstam. There are two introductions, the first by the author’s father, R. Meir Eisenstadter, av bet din Ungvar and copied from the Imrei Esh, the second by the author. Next is the text, in two columns in rabbinic type. Homat Esh is, as the title page notes, on the weekly Torah readings, haftorot, Megillot, and Psalms, and Pirkei Avot. There are also discourses for festivals, which, as are the Megillot, are placed as they occur in the annual order of the parashiot. The volume concludes with the4 eulogies, omissions and likkutim, errata, and a half-title page in Hungarian.

R. Menahem ben Meir Eisenstadter (1808-1869) received most of his Torah from his father. He served as av bet din in Saradna and Hust. In 1842 R. Eisenstadter succeeded his father in Ungvar. He was also the author of Zikkaron Yehudah (1869).
          
Paragraph 2    חידושי אגדה על התורה, והפטרות תהלים, חמש מגילות ופרקי אבות וקצת דרושים והספדים, אשר נשאר לנו שריד מאת ... מו"ה מנחם א"ש זצ"ל אב"ד ... אונגוואר ... ונלום אליו חידושי זקינו ... מו"ה דוד דייטש זצ"ל אבדק"ק עיר חדש ... [ו]אביו ... מו"ה מאיר א"ש זצ"ל אבדק"ק אונגוואר ... אספתי ... הוצאתים לאור ... פה נאטאפאלווא <נאצענעוויטש> מאיר בר"י גרינוואלד נכד המחבר ...

דף [2,ב-3,א]: איגרת ר' מאיר א"ש, אונגוואר, כז מנחם-אב תר"י, אל נציגי הקהילות שנתאספו בדעברעצין בדבר הקמת בית-המדרש לרבנים. הסכמות: ר' יהושע ברוך רייניטץ, טשעטשעוויץ, א דראש חודש שבט תרס"ג; ר' חיים האלבערשטאם, צאנז, יב מנחם-אב תרי"ב [שנדפסה ב"אמרי אש", חלק ב, אונגוואר תרכ"ד].

          
Reference
Description		    BE mem 314; Cohen, Sages of Hungary, p. 349; CD-EPI 0109415
        
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20th Century:    Checked
  
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Other:    Hungary
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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