Large volume of stenciled and handwritten leaves – notes taken of lectures delivered by R. Yosef Leib Bloch and by R. Chaim Rabinowitz (R. Chaim Telzer) in the Telshe Yeshiva in 1922-1926 – from the estate of the yeshiva student R. Mordechai Bohrer, rabbi of Gailingen.
The notes cover dozens of lectures delivered to the entire yeshiva body (shiur klali), by R. Y.L. Bloch, and the lectures of R. Chaim Telzer to the students of the various levels (primarily the second and third levels). Most are stenciled, others are handwritten. The notes were collected and bound by the yeshiva student R. Mordechai Bohrer, who later served as rabbi of Gailingen and Randegg in Baden.
The stenciled notes were distributed among the yeshiva student (printed from handwritten notes of one of the students). Faded ink in many places, reinforced by pen. The notes of about 18 lectures on Tractate Bava Batra are handwritten.
The volume opens with a title page made by R. Mordechai Bohrer, reading: "Lectures of R. Y.L… on eight tractates: Yevamot, Ketubot, Nedarim, Gittin, Kiddushin, Bava Kama, Bava Metzia, Bava Batra, which I had the privilege of hearing in Telshe Yeshiva in Lithuania from Shavuot 1922 until Elul 1926, Koenigsberg, Elul 1927, Mordechai son of Meir".
On the title page, R. Bohrer pasted a group photo of the student body and the rabbis and managers of the yeshiva taken in 1925.
Each tractate opens with a title page. An index is bound at the beginning.
Ownership inscriptions of yeshiva students, most of R. Mordechai Bohrer. Several leaves bear the signature of R. Azriel Rabinowitz, one of the yeshiva heads, son of R. Chaim. Other leaves are signed by Chaim Leib Bernstein and by Koppel Vitkin.
Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Bohrer (1895-1938) was born in Ansbach to a non-observant Jewish family, and later moved to Munich. There, Dr. Bohrer adopted a religious way of life under the guidance and tutelage of the community rabbi, R. Chanoch HaKohen Ehrentreu, eventually continuing his studies at the Telshe Yeshiva, which was one of the most important yeshivas in Lithuania, producing leading Torah scholars and yeshiva heads. He was a prominent educator and rabbi in various communities. During the Nazi regime, he assisted in the escape of hundreds of Jews, for which he was imprisoned. On Kristallnacht he was arrested and sent to Dachau, where he died.
244 leaves (approx. 470 pages). Most are stenciled, some 50 leaves are handwritten. 33 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Marginal wear and tears. Detached and loose gatherings. The ink on some stencils has faded and the letters are reinforced by pen. Damaged binding, partially detached, without a spine.
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