Responsa Minchas Elazar – Munkatch – four volumes – first edition – Munkatch-Bratislava, 1902-1930 – signatures and glosses – exemplars of the holy Gaon Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Tzvi Silberstein of Radomsk, author of “Nifla’os HaTiferes Shlomo” and other Seforim.
Sefer Minchas Elazar, responsa on all four parts of Shulchan Aruch, by the holy Gaon, Admor Rabbi Chaim Elazar Shapiro, Av Beis Din of Munkatch.
First editions of all four volumes – all were printed within the author’s lifetime.
The volumes:
✵ Part I: Munkatch, Shmuel Zanvil Kahana and Ozer Fried press, 1902.
✵ Part II: Munkatch, Shmuel Zanvil Kahana and Ozer Fried press, 1907.
✵ Part III: Bratislava (Pressburg), Shlomo Zalmen Neifeld press, 1922.
✵ Part IV: Munkatch, Grafia press, 1930.
All volumes carry many signatures and ownership notations in the handwriting of the Gaon, the Chossid Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Tzvi Hirsch Silberstein of Radomsk:
“Hashem has gifted me with this. Avraham Shmuel Tzvi Hirsch Silberstein, may Hashem protect me, previously Av Beis Din of Bodzentyn and Wierzbnik in Poland, now residing in Toronto. Hoping to ascend again to the holy city Yerushalayim.”
All four volumes are filled with glosses handwritten by Rabbi Silberstein, amongst them reservations and deeper thought, as well as scores of references to latter Seforim which debated the author’s writings. Many deep glosses.
Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Tzvi Hirsch Silberstein (1885-1951). Born in Radomsk. His mother was the granddaughter of the Radomsker Rebbe, the ‘Tiferes Shlomo’. Wonderous sharp Gaon. Served in the Rabbinate of Bodzentyn and Wierzbnik in Poland. In 1925 he emigrated to Canada, and served as Rabbi of a community in Toronto. Later on he also served as the chairman of the Toronto Rabbinical Council. Ca. 1938 he moved to Eretz Yisrael but two years later returned to Canada. On the title page of his Sefer “Korban Shmuel”, which was printed in 1944, he writes: “I lived for more than two years in the holy city Yerushalayim, may she be speedily rebuilt, and now I live as a stranger here in Toronto, Canada.” From his signatures we see his yearning to return to Yerushalayim. Authored many Seforim: “Karnot HaMizbe’ach” (140 ways to resolve the questions of Tosafot on one Sugya. Biłgoraj, 1927), “Nifla’ot HaTiferes Shlomo” (Chiddushim, stories, and sayings of his grandfather, the Admor Rabbi Shlomo of Radomsk. Biłgoraj, 1923), Responsa “Korban Shmuel”, “Shiva’a Shavu’os”, “Torah VeHalacha” and more.
Four volumes.
I: [7], 2-87 pp. II: [9], 2-77 pp. III: [6], 2-73 pp. IV: [7], 2-52 pp.
~32-33 cm. Very few stains and tears. Stamps. New, elegant leather bindings. Overall good condition.
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