Large handwritten manuscript (over 800 pages), Chiddushei Agaddah on the Torah and Chiddushim on the Shas. Handwritten by the Gaon Rabbi Yitzchok Yehuda Herman – the community head of Waitzen (disciple of the holy Gaon Rabbi Yeshayahu Silberstein Av Beis Din of Waitzen, author of “Ma’asai Lamelech”) – at the end are a few lessons given by Rabbi Silberstein in his Yeshiva. Waitzen, 1897-1910 – Never printed.
Most of the manuscript was written when the author was only 13-15 years old!
On the front flyleaf is written: “Such are the words of one who is a worm and not a man, ho awaits the salvation of Hashem and repents his unworthiness,
the young Yitzchok Yehuda son of my father Rabbi Avraham Menachem Hermann, may his light shine as the sun in the East… and the name of my mother, a woman of valor like Esther and Avigayil… Blima daughter of the late philanthropist, my grandfather and teacher Rabbi David Dov OBM…”
Most of the volume is Chiddushim of Agaddah on the Torah, on Tehillim, and on the Agaddot of Chazal. The last 60 pages, beginning with pg. 359 and on, contain Chiddushim on various Sugyot and tractates. Some of the Chiddushim are from the lessons of his Rebbi – the holy Gaon Rabbi Yeshayahu Silberstein, Av Beis Din of Waitzen and author of “Ma’asai Lamelech” on the Rambam – as stated by the author:
“Tuesday, the 3rd of Iyar here in Waitzen, the year of “קיבוץ גליות” (5657/1897) – which I have learned in the daily Shiur… my master and teacher the Gaon of here, I the young Yitzchok Yehuda Hermann – Sugya of Muktzeh on Shabbos” (413/a). He mentions him at least one more time in the first section on Agaddah:
“And it appears to me, based on what I heard from my master and teacher the Gaon of here" (296/b). [Based on the preface to “Ma’asai Lamelech”, Rabbi Silberstein was appointed Rabbi of Weitzen in 1884).
The manuscript also quotes a Chiddush attributed to Rabbi Zussman Sofer Av Beis Din of Paks (passed away in Oct. 1902):
“And it appears to me to explain, in the name of the Gaon Rabbi Zussman Sofer Av Beis Din of Paks” (292/a).
The manuscript also contains a eulogy he gave on his niece: “A eulogy on the child Miss Machla, daughter of my brother-in-law Rabbi David Aharon Hirschfeld, who passed away on Shabbos Vayechi and was buried on Sunday Shmos 5659” (278/1).
Rabbi Yitzchok Yehuda Hermann (1884-1960) the Community Leader of Weitzen. In his youth, he studied in the Yeshiva of the Gaon Rabbi Yeshayahu Silberstein Av Beis Din of Weitzen, author of “Ma’asai Lamelech”, as well as in the Yeshiva of the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Rosenberg Av Beis Din of Unsdorf. After his marriage in 1908, he studied (in 1910) in the Yeshiva of the Gaon Rabbi Yehuda Grunwald, Av Beis Din of Satmar, author of “Zichron Yehuda”. (On pg. 414/b at the end of this volume, there’s a Shiur the author heard from this Rebbi of his:
“Rosh Chodesh Iyar ‘670 (May 10, 1910) here, Satmar… I heard a question from my master and teacher the Gaon of here…”) Rabbi Yitzchok Yehuda was a multi-talented man of deeds and an immense Talmid Chacham. A large Kuntres of his Chiddushim on the Torah was printed in 1912 as an addendum at the end of ‘Chiddushei Mahari”a’ of Maran Rabbi Yehuda Asad. His Rabbis wrote him enthusiastic approbations for this Kuntres. The Gaon Rabbi Silberstein wrote: “Kuntres ‘Toldos Yitzchak ben Avraham’ from my honorable disciple the Rabbinical scholar,
who is exalted in Torah and awe, sharp and versed, Rabbi Yitzchok Yehuda Hermann… who has caught in his net correct and pleasant things in Agadda, things worthy of being brought to the table of kings”. Rabbi Shmuel Rosenberg, Av Beis Din of Unsdorf wrote: “My disciple the Rabbinical scholar, who is exalted in Torah and awe, sharpened saw, polished lightning”. And the Maharitz Dushinsky writes of his Chiddushim: “I have found a good flavor to them”. In 1941 he immigrated to the Holy Land, settled in Tel Aviv, and was one of the founders of ‘Chug Chassam Sofer’. Five of his eight children were murdered in the Holocaust, HY”D.
[3], 5-417 sht. (Nearly 830 written pp.) 20cm. Stains. New binding. Good condition.
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