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Lot #    23414
Auction End Date    4/28/2009 12:42:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Halipot Simlat Binyamin - Haggadah
Title (Hebrew)    חלפות שמלת בנימין - הגדה של פסח
Author    R. Benjamin Ze’ev ben David Zevi Sofer
City    Paks
Publisher    Rosenbaum
Publication Date    1896-97
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   First edition. [4], 230; [2], 118 ff. octavo 220:145 mm., usual age staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards.
          
Detailed
Description
   Only edition of this commentary on the Torah and Haggadah by R. Benjamin Ze’ev ben David Zevi Sofer. This volume contains parts one and two of the work, the first part on Bereshit and Shemot, the second part on Vayikra and the Haggadah. The title page describes Halipot Simlat Binyamin as a desirable and splendid work, as “the boughs of goodly trees” (Leviticus 23:40) ethical discourses, “full of all goods” (Nehemiah 9:25) “sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb” (Psalms 19:11). There are approbations from R. Simhah Bunim ben Abraham Samuel Benjamin Sofer, R. Koppel ben Ezekiel Reich, and R. Sussman Eliezer ben Mordecai Fischel Sofer, followed by introductions from R. Sofer and his son, R. Ephraim Fischel Sofer, av bet din Teshum. The text follows in a single column in rabbinic letters. Part two, printed the following year, has its own title page and foliation. At the end of the volume are several drashot for zayin Adar, Shabbat ha-Gadol, and a commentary on the Haggadah without the text.

R. Benjamin Ze’ev ben David Zevi Sofer (1824-98) was born in Pressburg. He lived for many years in Kamaron where he was a merchant. He subsequently served as rabbi in Varshan, Adand, and Sangrot and afterwards moved to Pest where he served as a rav for the Shass hevrah. In his later years he returned to Pressburg.

          
Paragraph 2    ... פירוש... על מקראות... ודרשות מוסר... מא"א מו"ר... מו"ה בנימין זאב המכונה וואלף סופר נ"י שהי' רב בש"ס חברא בעיר פעסט... סדרתיו והוצאתיו לאור, בנו הקטן... (אפרים) פישל סופר רב דק"ק טשוס והגליל... חלק א-ד.

הסכמות: ר' שמחה בונם ב"ר אשב"ס [אברהם שמואל בנימין סופר], פרעסבורג, אור ליום ד וארא תרנ"ו; - א ר' קאפל ב"ר יחזקאל רייך, פעסט, ד וארא תרנ"ו; - א ר' זוסמן [אליעזר] ברמ"פ [מרדכי פישל] סופר, פאקש, ד שמות תרנ"ו. - א

          
Reference
Description
   BE het 790; Cohen, Sages of Hungary, p. 362; Yaari, Haggadot 1536; Yudlov 2044; CD-EPI 0179418
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Rumania
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
Haggadah:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica