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Lot #    21641
Auction End Date    10/7/2008 11:09:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Kohelet Yizhak
Title (Hebrew)    קהלת יצחק
Author    R. Isaac ben Nissin Reitbord
City    Vilna
Publisher    Munk
Publication Date    1900
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Revised edition. [2], 214 pp. octavo 240:180 mm., usual age staining, old hands. A good copy loose in contemporary boards, split.
          
Paragraph 1    The R. Meir Amsel copy with his hand and stamp on title. R. Meir b. Abraham Amsel, (1907-2007) was born in Neudorf (Pecsujfalu). At the young age of 6 his mother would wake him at 4:00 AM, tie a lantern to his chest and sent him off to the local klaus to study Torah. His passion for learning, developed as a child, was life long. The family moved to Kosice, in the teens, where R. Amsel acquainted R. Shmuel Engel, the Radismishler Rav, and became his devoted student. Under his guidance he developed his skills in interpreting Jewish law and rendering halakhic decisions. In Kosice R. Amsel also became a devoted disciple of R. Abraham Shalom Halberstam, Admor of Strokov and son of the Divrei Yechezkel. He married the daughter of R. Moses Bugler of Presov-Krestir, a rabbinical family with close ties to many of the regional Hasidic Rebbes. Through the family R. Amsel met the Admor of Krestir, Rabbi Yeshaya, and many other notables. During the Holocaust years R. Amsel as leader of the Agudat Israel movement in Czhekoslovakia, secured immigration for thousands of Jews to Erez Israel. His philosophy, dedication, and concern for Erez Israel, developed by the Kattowitz Agudah Movement, was lifelong. WWII destroyed much of his family, including wife and child. Hiding and operating in disguise as a gentile, he moved to Budapest, where he was involved with smuggling food and sustenance to widows and orphans in the Jewish ghetto. In 1948 he immigrated to the United States and immediately began publishing the Hamaor, a bi-monthly rabbinical journal, that won the approval of the greatest rabbis. Among the contributors and supporters were the Satmar Rebbe, the Lubavitch Rebbe, the Bobover Rebbe, the Munkatcher Rebbe, the Tzhelemer Rebbe, Rabbi Jonathan Steif, Rabbi Aaron Koytlar, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, Rabbi Pinhas Hirschprung, and many others. During the fifties and sixties, Hamaor was at the forefront of practically all major battles to strengthen Orthodox Judaism in the United States. Although his strong views were many times opposed – his integrity gained the journal worldwide respect and recognition. In 1965 he opened a synagogue and mikvah in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, with the financial assistance of the Satmar and Lubavitch Rebbes. In the same year he published volume one of his magnus opum, Responsa Hamaor, an 800 page collection of important responsa by hundreds of rabbis. Volume two, Zikhronot Hamaor, an 800 page collection of biographies of Holocaust victims and survivors, appeared in 1975, followed by the English version, Encyclopedia Hamaor, several years later. R. Amsel passed-on on Saturday afternoon, the 23rd of Tevet 5767 (January 14, 2007) in Brooklyn, NY. At his funeral, attended by thousands of mourners, he was eulogized by the President of the Agudat Harabonim of America, Rabbi Zevi Meir Ginzburg, Rabbi Chaim Moshe Koenig, the Yoka Rav, Rabbi Ehrenreich, the Matisdorfer Rav, Rabbi Spira, the Bluzhever Rebbe, and his son Hagaon Rav Yaakov Amsel, editor of the Hamaor. Among the mourners were many notable rabbis and community leaders including the Bobover Rebbe, Munkatch Rebbe, Tshelem Rebbe, R. Horowitz of Spinka and many others. R. Amsel was laid to rest in the Arugath Habosem section of the Wellwood Cemetary in Long Island.
          
Detailed
Description		    Discourses on the weekly Torah portions by R. Isaac ben Nissin (Reitbord) ben Samuel Ne’eman. Kohelet Yizhak has two title pages, both with the header and place of printing in red ink. The first title page has a handsome architectural frame title page, the second is text only. The latter describes Kohelet Yizhak as precious novellae, more choice than silver and fine gold, words that enlighten like sapphire which the author heard from geonim and well known rabbis and at time his own insights. He describes himself giving several generations, and that he is from Yanova near Pinsk. There is an introduction from R. Isaac ben Nissin, followed by the text, in two columns in rabbinic type, excepting the initial lines of a parasha and is the subject of the discourses. At the bottom of the page, are occasional annotations, entitled Pirhei Nissan, set in square letters. Kohelet Yizhak was a popular work, reprinted several times.
          
Paragraph 2    ... מאת ... מו"ה יצחק בן ... ר' ניסן ז"ל (רייטבארד) ... הוצאה שניה בתיקונים והוספות מהמחבר.
          
Reference
Description		    BE kof 203; CD-EPI 0167589
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
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Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
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