Tiv Gittin – Lemberg, 1859 – Important Ownership – Rebbe Menashe Eichenstein, Author of Alfei Menashe, and Rebbe ...

Tiv Gittin – Lemberg, 1859 – Important Ownership – Rebbe Menashe Eichenstein, Author of Alfei Menashe, and Rebbe Yehudale of Dzikov (With Many Glosses in his Handwriting)

Tiv Gittin, on Shemot Gittin by the author of Beit Shmuel, with Yad Efrayim, by R. Efrayim Zalman Margolies of Brody. Lemberg (Lviv): David Tzvi Schrenzel, 1859. With approbation of R. Yosef Shaul Nathansohn, and additions and notes by him.
Important ownership – copy of the Rebbe of Veretzky-Zidichov, R. Menashe Eichenstein, author of Alfei Menashe (son-in-law of Rebbe Yehoshua of Dzikov), and his nephew the Rebbe of Dzikov, R. Yehudale Hager-Horowitz.
Many inscriptions on the title page and its verso, including some signatures of Rebbe "Menashe Eichenstein"; "Veretzky". On the title page and margins of the book, many stamps of Rebbe Yehudale of Dzikov from the time he served as dayan in Klausenburg: "Yehuda Hager – Dayan – Klausenburg" / "Ioda Hager – Rabin – Cluj". Dozens of glosses and notes in Rebbe Yehudale's handwriting (some deleted by him with ink). A gloss in Rashi script (possibly in the handwriting of the Alfei Menashe), on p. 35b.

Rebbe Menashe Eichenstein (1865-1934), son and successor of Rebbe Yissachar Berish of Veretzky-Zidichov, and son-in-law of Rebbe Yehoshua Horowitz of Dzikov-Ropshitz. Outstanding Torah scholar, author of Alfei Menashe on Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpat, Torat HaAsham on the laws of purity, Mateh Menashe on Shabbat and holidays, and Alfei Menashe on the Torah. He served as rabbi of Reisha (Rzeszów) from 1904, succeeding R. Yehoshua Heshel Wallerstein. After World War I he settled in Munkacs, and from 1924 he served as rabbi and rebbe in Veretzky, succeeding his father.

Rebbe Yehuda Horowitz-Hager of Dzikov (1905-1989, Encyclopedia L'Chassidut, II, pp. 3-4), son of Rebbe Alter Yechezkel Eliyahu of Dzikov, from the Ropshitz dynasty. He was raised in Grosswardein by his maternal grandfather Rebbe Yisrael Hager of Vizhnitz, the Ahavat Yisrael, and married the daughter of his uncle, Rebbe Chaim Meir Hager of Vizhnitz (adopting his surname, Hager). In 1936-1944, he served as dayan and posek in Klausenburg. After the Holocaust, he immigrated to Eretz Israel and settled in Jerusalem, where he served as rosh mesivta in the Beit Yosef Tzvi (Dushinsky) yeshiva, and accumulated many disciples. He was very close with the Chazon Ish. He refused to lead a community, yet many Chassidim and admirers gathered around him. Near the end of his life, he lived in London, where he served as rebbe. He was known for his tremendous diligence, holiness, and great devotion in his worship of G-d, and exerted himself his entire life in Torah study. Most of his novellae on halachah and aggadah were recorded with great concision in the margins of the books in his large library. These novellae were published in the Gilyonei Mahari series.
[2], 3-63; 11 leaves. 35 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Wear and creases. New binding, with leather spine.