Shut Meil Tzedakah, by the great Gaon Rabbi Yonah Land- Sofer. Yuda and Lipman brothers sons of Moshe Bek Press. Prague 1756. First edition.
With approbations among them of the ‘Noda BeYehuda’ and his Beit Din (court). At the end of the Sefer is a collection of quotes from the famous Mathematician Euclid (Greek mathematician, founder of geometry), to be used for Torah study. The sefer was published without the author’s name, but his name is mentioned in the approbations. In the introduction, the author comes out against the conducts of the Jewish society at that time.
"ואחרי כי נתמעט הלבבות ויראת שמים אזלי ונתמעטו השקדנים נעדרו החכמות ונשתכחו התורות… התחילו החכמים להנות מלימודם בתורה… קמו נערים מנוערים ותלמידים מצוערים… ועוד הוסיפו סרה כי נגדעה קרנות התורה לפני עמא דארעא… והצליחו והגדילו וברוב עושרם מקבוצת ממון שאינו שלהם יתהללו ויעשו להם חבורו’ כל איש שוגה ופתי’.
Hand written signature on page no.50 (‘נ’) combining the page no. ‘nun’ with his signature: ‘נתן שנייטוך’ (Nosson Shneituch).
The Gaon Rabbi Nosson Shneituch served in the Beit Din (court) of the Gaon Rabbi Wolf Hamburg in the Fürth community. His brother was the famous gaon Rabbi Yosef author of ‘Shut Rivam Shneituch’ who is mentioned in Poskim many times (received authorizations from all great sages of the generation among them the ‘Yetav Lev’, the ‘Darchei Teshuva’, Rabbi Shlomo of Bobov’, the ‘Maharid of Belz’ and more). The gaon Rabbi Nosson was considered a divine, diligent, shrewd and perceptive. At the end of his life he ascended to Israel. In Shut Rivam Shneituch his brother brings in his name many responses in Halacha. Passed away in Jerusalem in Shevat 1848. Daughter of his son Rabbi Moshe Leib, married to the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Moron HaGaon Rabbi Shamuel Salant. Another of his grandson was the Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Orenstein from whom many great families descended in Jerusalem.
[6] 82 pages, 19 cm.
Renewed cover, moth holes, aging stains. Cut at the side of the signature of Rabbi Nosson. Good condition.
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