Notebook handwritten by R. Shmuel Rozovsky, Torah novellae on Tractate Bava Metzia chapters 2-3. [Eretz Israel, ca. 1945-1950].

On first page, handwritten inscription by a family member: "Manuscript of my father, apparently from the beginning of his Ponevezh period", noting to check whether there are additions not printed in Shiurei R. Shmuel on Bava Metzia. Another handwritten inscription on the cover mentions the name of his father R. Shmuel.

Notes on various topics, written over a long period. Autograph writing, with additions and deletions. Discusses extensively the comments of Rishonim and Acharonim on the topics dealt with, including the Rosh, the Shitah Mekubetzet, the Noda BiYehudah, the Machaneh Efraim, the Minchat Chinuch, his teacher the Shaarei Yosher and others.

R. Shmuel Rozovsky (1913-1979) was the son of R. Michel David Rozovsky, a rabbi in Grodno (1869-1935). He studied under R. Shimon Shkop in the Shaar HaTorah yeshiva in Grodno (his hometown), in the Mir yeshiva in Poland and in the Lomza yeshiva in Petach Tikva. He was the son-in-law of R. Tzvi Pesach Frank, Rabbi of Jerusalem. He served as lecturer in the Lomza yeshiva as a young man. In Kislev 1943 he moved over with his disciples to the newly founded Ponevezh yeshiva in Bnei Brak, and was the first lecturer in the Ponevezh yeshiva. His lectures were the focal point of the Ponevezh yeshiva, where he transmitted the Torah of the Lithuanian yeshivot to the new generation in Eretz Israel. His impact on the Torah world in our times was highly significant, and until this day the lectures in most yeshivot are based on the principles and approaches of R. Shmuel, which he absorbed from his teachers in the Grodno yeshiva and in the yeshivas in Lithuania.

Already in his lifetime, his lectures were published based on his students' notes, which were photocopied and printed in various mimeograph editions. After his passing, his novellae and lectures were edited by his descendants and leading disciples, and published in Chidushei Rabbi Shmuel, Shiurei Rabbi Shmuel and Zichron Shmuel. When compiling these books, they mainly used the notes which his disciples took during the lectures, referring only minimally to R. Shmuel's own manuscripts, since he wrote very little of his own notes. Thus, most of his teachings were transmitted through his disciples' oral and written records.

Small-format notebook. 16 cm. [19] written pages, and more blank pages. Good condition. Open tears to blank leaves. Original Bristol wrapper.