Lot 159:

Manuscript by Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried, Author Of "Kitzur Shulchan Aruch"

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Large page handwritten by the Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried, author of ‘Kitzur Shulchan Aruch’ – Chiddushim on tractate Sanhedrin.

The Chiddushim on this page were first printed in his Sefer ‘Pnei Shlomo’ on Seder Nezikin (Machon Yerushalayim ed. 1999, pp. 161-163).

The Tzaddik Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried (1804-1886) the renowned Rav of Ungvár (Uzhhorod) was a disciple of the Gaon Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Heller, the author of Tiv Gittin. In his youth he studied together with the holy Gaon, Admor Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh of Liska. In 1843 he was appointed Rabbi of Brezowitz, and in 1850 was appointed Av Beit Din of his hometown Ungvár, a position he held until his passing. Author of many seforim including Keset Sofer, Torat Zevach, Lechem VeSimlah, Ohalei Shem; however he is most renowned for his valuable Sefer the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, a fundamentally basic requirement for any Jewish home, that was printed in 14 editions in his lifetime alone. When he was still in his 20s, the Chatam Sofer wrote of him ‘performer of wonders, an exalted Tzaddik’. The holy Gaon Rabbi Shimon Sofer writes of him: ‘I merited to greet his holy visage and receive his blessing’. It is told that before the passing of the Maharam Schick, he said regarding Rabbi Ganzfried’ providing the public with his meritorious Seforim: ‘How great is the merit Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried has due to his writings’, and his holy eyes were filled with tears. When he was 30, in 1834, he published for the first time his famed composition on Hilchot Stam – Keset Sofer, for which he received an enthusiastic approbation from the Chasam Sofer, who wrote to him: ‘I have gone deeply over it from cover to cover and lo you are beautiful, my bride, and have no blemish. It is aligned with Halacha in the path of truth… I command all my disciples, who are required to heed my voice that from the day this Sefer, Keset Hasofer, is printed… from that point and on they should not give permission or an acceptance letter to any scribe unless he is well versed in this Sefer verbatim… and a scribe that is not versed in it shall be stricken from his position."

[1] pg. 31cm. Good condition. Tear in the upper-right margin, with no damage to content. Mounted in an impressive leather cover.

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