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In Hebrew. 156 leaves. 38 x 24 cm. Once owned by an apparently learned person, since he noted a few typos. On back free end paper is the signature, and place name, in an ornate and beautiful hand of a former owner, "Madame Eva Spitzer / Leipnik [today Lipník nad Be?vou in the Czech Republic. She was born in 1795, date she died is unknown] Stamp of former owner on title page: ENGEL GASPAR. Since the pages are larger than the scanner's platen, the images here are cut off. New buckram binding. Rabbi Samuel ben Natan Nata ha-Levi Kelin (1720-1806), rabbi and posek. Kolin took his name from his birthplace, Kolin, in Bohemia, where he received his talmudic education, and was considered a child prodigy. After his marriage he settled in Boskovice and his material needs were provided by his wife, who managed a wool business, leaving him free for study. Although he never held an official rabbinic appointment, for over 60 years he conducted a yeshivah which attracted many pupils. R. Kolin achieved fame through his comprehensive work, Mahazit ha-Shekel, a commentary on the Shulhan Arukh, Orah Hayyim and Yoreh De'ah. The section on Orah Hayyim (Vienna, 1807-08) is in fact a supercommentary on the Magen Avraham of R. A. A. Gombiner. Its main purpose is to give the actual wording of the sources to which R. Gombiner alludes, or which he abbreviates, and to simplify his rather difficult language. Only portions of the commentary to the Yoreh De'ah, part 1, and on the laws of niddah, were published (1858-60). The Mahazit ha-Shekel achieved wide popularity among scholars who depended on it in arriving at halakhic decisions. It was published separately a number of times and in later editions together with the text of the Shulhan Arukh. R. Kolin's sermons (1906) and his commentaries to Bava Batra and Avodah Zarah (1958) were also published under the same title. Friedberg 361 page 819. Lipnik Nad Becvou Czech Republic (Czech. Lipník nad Be?vou; Ger. Leipnik), town in N.E. Moravia, Czech Republic. A synagogue is first mentioned there in 1540, though a Jewish settlement existed at least a century before. Most of Lipnik's Jews were engaged in textile production and in the import of livestock from Poland. In 1570 an economically injurious obligation to lend horses to the local gentry was abolished and the Jews' right of residence in perpetuity acknowledged in return for a payment. The community grew to 40 households in 1665. The rabbinate was founded in the late 16th century. Renowned rabbis included Moses Samson Bacharach (1632?44), who composed a selihah on the sack of the town by Swedish troops in 1643, Isaac Eulenburg (1652?57), and Isaiah b. Shabbetai Sheftel Horowitz (1658?73). Under the rabbinates of Baruch *Fraenkel-Teomim (1802?28), Solomon Quetsch (1832?54), and Moses Bloch (1856?77), the yeshivah attracted pupils from all Europe. Rabbi F. Hillel (1892?1928) wrote the history of the community. In 1567 a third cemetery was opened (a fourth in 1883). The community was constituted as one of the political communities (see Politische Gemeinde) in 1850. Its population grew from 975 in 1794 to 1,259 in 1830, and 1,687 in 1857, but declined to 212 in 1921. In 1930 the community numbered 154 (2% of the total population). The community came to an end when its members were deported to the Nazi extermination camps in 1942. After World War II the congregation was renewed for a brief period. The synagogue equipment was sent to the Central Jewish Museum in Prague. The building was used from 1949 by the Hussite church. Lipnik was the birthplace of the industrialists David and Wilhelm Gutmann, who established an institution for the poor in their mother's house in 1903. . . . . Seller Inventory # 004811
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