Three independent works, each the only edition of that work, bound together. The first title is Ve-Yatar Yitzhak, one hundred two responsa and discourses by R. Isaac ben Nahman Heller, av bet din Krilovitz. The title-page informs that Ve-Yatar Yitzhak is comprised of responsa hidden and forgotten. These are deep and varied, collected by R. Heller. In addition, he has added discourses, deep as the sea. There are eleven approbations followed by R. Heller’s introduction and then the text. Among the end material are two discourses, one in honor of Nicholai Alexandovitz on the day he became czar, the secondfor 7 Adar.

The second title is Kemo ha-Shahar, alphabetic rules for the Talmud and poskim by R. Nathan Nata Landau, a subject for which he was proficient and renowned  R. Landau (d. 1907), Hungarian rabbi. Landau was a dayyan in Bardejov (Hg. Bártfa) and subsequently the rabbi and head of the bet din of Oswiecim . He is frequently mentioned in the responsa Beit Naftali (1899) of Naphtali Schwartz (5, 6, 31, et al.), and in the Ya'aneh be-Kol (1903) edited by Joseph Schwartz. An opinion of Landau's appears in the Sharvit ha-Zahav (1912) of Shabbetai Lipschutz. He was succeeded at Oswiecim by his son Eliezer. Landau devoted himself to the methodology of the Talmud, on which he published two works (both arranged alphabetically): Urah Shaḥar (1882) and Kemo ha-Shaḥar (1904). His acumen and mastery of talmudic learning were evidenced in his Kenaf Ra'anannah, responsa (3 vols., 1886–99), Kerem Nata (1895), novellae on tractate Sotah (1895), and Levanon Tov (1901) on Niddah.

The third work is Hemdat Yisrael, a two part work on the Rambam by R. Meir Dan. The first is entitled Ner Mitzvah on the latter’s Sefer ha-Mitzvot and on the seven Mitzvot Benei Noah. The seond part is Torah Or, novella on rabbinic ordinances and on the distinction between Torah and rabbinic laws in the order of the Talmud. R. Meir Dan Plotzki of Ostrova (1867–1928). He studied under R. Israel Joshua of Kutno, R. Hayyim Eleazar Wax of Piotrkow, and R. Abraham of Sochaczew. In 1891, he was elected rabbi of Warta. The publication of the first part of his Hemdat Yisrael partly on Maimonides’ Sefer ha-Mitzvot in 1903 made him famous throughout Poland, and in 1908 he was appointed rabbi of the large town of Ostrow. In 1926 he resigned from the rabbinate and was appointed rosh yeshivah of the Metivta of Gur in Warsaw. Plotzki visited Erez Israel and instituted many improvements in the administration of the Polish kolel. One of the leaders of Agudat Israel, he spent a year as its emissary in Belgium, England, and the United States. He was chairman of the executive committee of the Agudat ha-Rabbanim in Poland. he also wrote Keli Hemdah, a commentary on the Pentateuch, in six parts (1906–38); and Nizozei Or, novellae on the Or ha-Hayyim by R. Hayyim ben Attar. Sha’alu Shelom Yerushalayim (Bilgoraj 1910), expose of the purported Jerusalem Talmud, here on Hullin and Bekhorot, published by Solomon Judah Friedlaender. Sha’alu Shelom Yerushalayim is an important refutation of Friedlaender’s claims, initially accepted by many leading authorities, of having found a manuscript of the Jerusalem Talmud on Seder Kodashim. Many of his other works have remained in manuscript.

Hebrew Description

ויעתר יצחק:  כולל בו שו"ת [באורח חיים, יורה דעה ואבן העזר] ... אשר השבתי לשואלי ... ונספחו אליהם דרושים ... ממני ... יצחק העליר בן ... נחמן ז"ל נכד הרב ... בן ציון קאמינקער זצ"ל ... בתוך עמי אנכי יושב בעיר קריליוויץ פלך קאמיניץ פאדאלסק ...

מ’ 91-102: דרושים. ביניהם: "דרוש לכבוד מלכנו ... ניקאלאי אלעכסאנדראוויטש יר"ה, שאמרתי ביום הושם כתר מלכות בראשו, ביום 14 ... מאי 1895"; "לכבוד הרבנים ... יצחק ויעקב, היושבים בשבת תחכמוני בעיר מגורי אביהם הרב ... שמחה ביק זצ"ל אבד"ק מאהליב".

כמו השחר:  הערות... בסוגיות הלכות ואגדות... [בסדר א"ב (אות א אמת - אות ת תפלה), מאת] נתן נטע באא"מ משה דוד ז"ל... סג"ל לנדא ראב"ד דק"ק אושפצין...

חמדת ישראל ... חברתי ... מאיר דן (רפאל) ברח"י ... פלאצקי. מ’ילידי קיטנא אבד"ק דוואהרט ... חלק א-ב.

חלק א: הכולל שני קונטרסים: נר מצוה ... הערות ... חידושים בלשון הרמב"ם ... בס’ המצות ... (גם נלוה לזה [עמ’ 81-150] קונטרס ... במקורי הל"ט מלאכות שבת ... על דברי הג[און ר’ יוסף באבד] בעל מנ"ח [מנחת חינוך על ספר החינוך] ... בל"ת [בלא תעשה] שהוסיף הרמב"ן [עמ’ 156-171]) ומצורף קונטרס ... לבאר ד’ הרמב"ם ... בדיני שבע מצות ב"נ [בני נח] ועוד ענינים ... תורה אור ... חידושים ופלפולים בדיני א"ר [אינו ראוי] מדרבנן אי הוי א"ר מה"ת [מן התורה] והבדל בן דאו[רייתא] לדרבנן כסדר הש"ס ... זרעים ומועד ... ובסוף הספר נלוה קונטרס בית יהודא ... חידושים (הגהות על ס’ מנ"ח) ... מבני ... מו"ה אלעזר יהודא ז"ל. [נסדר אצל] נטע קראנענבערג וגיסו אברהם רויזינגארטען, דפוס Sh. Belkhatovskii, תרס"ג, 1903. [6], 294; [1], 20 עמ’.