Historic Gemara
Tractates Sukkah, Megillah and Ta’anis, and Yerushalmi Shekalim – Slavuta 1818 – personal exemplar of the illustrious and famous Gaon, Rabbi Meir Shapiro of Lublin – his signatures and stamps from the time of his first Rabbinical position in Galina – glosses.
It is a well-known fact that on the last Simchat Torah of his life, in 1934, Rabbi Meir Shapiro davened in the Shul of the Chozeh of Lublin; he instructed that they should surround the Bimah with the Gemarot that his ancestors had printed in Slavuta, and that they should dance with them. (Meir Be’ahava, pg. 26, ch. 8).
Stamp on the title page and front flyleaf: “Meir Shapiro, Av Beis Din of Galina”.
Additional stamps on the front flyleaf: “Meir Shapiro, Av Beis Din and Rosh Mesivta of Piotrków”; “Athenaeum of Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin”.
On the front endpaper are 3 signatures. The first two appear to be authentic while the third appears to be an imitation.
Among the pages of this Gemara are a few short glosses of proofreading; at the top of page 58b of the Rosh on tractate Sukkah is a gloss of several lines (author has not been positively identified).
Please see the Hebrew listing for biographical information on Rabbi Shapiro.
Additional signatures: “Yisrael Yona Blakowsky”, “Alter Kahana”, “Chaim Baruch Kahana”, “Efrayim Yosef ben R’ Yitzchak”.
66; 14; 230-257; 38; 6; 278; 36; 6; 169-182; 13 pp. 34cm. Most pages in good condition. Old binding with leather spine.
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