‘Mikra Gedola’ מקרא גדולה עם כל הפרושים אשר באו בכל הדפוסים ועתה נתוסף קהילה גדולה מחכמים גדולים (with commentaries that come on all prints and now added a great community of great scholars)
. Amsterdam, 1727. With stamp of "דוד בהרב מהר"ש שליט"א בארינשטיין סאכאכטשוב" (‘David ben HaRav MahRa"sh Shlit"a Borenstein Sochaczew) and his personal hand signature on page 4.
According to the custom of his grandfather the Holy Moron ‘Avnei Nezer’ of Sochaczew to sign his name of pages 1 or 2 and integrate his signature with the completion of the page, so in this print the holy hand signature of his grandson appears on page 4, a
s the Holy Rabbi David of Sochaczew adds the letters ‘Vav’ and ‘Daled’ to the page numbers and so it equals the signature of his name ‘דוד’ (David).
[2] 322 pages. Hand written signature, additional stamps on the cover page and among them the stamp of the Holy Rabbi of Sochotchov (Sochaczew), and the stamp of the Jewish Historical Institute of Waraw.
The Holy Rabbi David of Sochaczew (1876-1942) son of the Holy ‘Shem MiShamuel’. From great Torah scholars and Admorim of Poland before the Holocaust, member of Agudat HaRabbanim in Poland, Member of Moetzet Gedolai HaTorah of Agudat Yisrael, and active in public life. During his youth he learned by his holy grandfather the ‘Avnei Nezer’, and was known as extremely diligent. From the year 1906 he was Rav and Rosh Yeshiva in Wyszogród. During the WWI he moved to Lodz and continued to serve as Rav in several cities. In 1924 he succeeded his father as Admor of Sochaczew, founded the network of Yeshivot ‘Beit Avraham’ there they studied according to the unique method of Sochatchow Chassidut. In the Warsaw Ghetto he publicized words of support, arranged Torah lessons and Minyanim for prayers. Most of his Torah innovations were lost in the Holocaust, and the remaining manuscripts were published in the sefe ‘Chasdei David’, in the Hagada shel Pesach ‘Shem MiShamuel’ and in the sefer ‘Naot HaDeshe’.
No cover, loose binding, aging stains, damage on the title page with some damage to text, moth holes. Fair-good condition.