Copy of the Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Isaak Schorr, special binding & writings. Toafos Re'em, Zolkiew 1855, first edition

Copy of the Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Isaak Schorr, special binding & writings. Toafos Re'em, Zolkiew 1855, first edition

Shut Toafos Re'em, R' Aharon Moshe Taubes, Zolkiew 1855, first edition.

Rare. 

Special gold stamped binding.

He writes a whole index page. His signature on tile page. Important Marginalia.

Signature in Romanian if his grandson Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Schorr Rabbi of Bucharest. 

32.4 cm. Very good condition.

Rabbi Aharon Moshe Taubes (1787-1852), Av Beit Din of Snyatyn and of Iaşi, author of the To'afot Re'em responsa and of Karnei Re'em was a prominent Torah scholar in his times in Galicia and Romania. He corresponded on Halachic matters with Rabbi Mordechai Bennet and with the Chatam Sofer. Born in Lvov, he was a childhood companion of the author of Yeshuot Ya'akov and of other Galician Torah giants. During 1820-1842, he served in the Snyatyn rabbinate. [In 1832, he was appointed to the rabbinate in Bonyhád Hungary but eventually decided not to accept the position]. During the last decade of his life he served as Rabbi of Iaşi.

The Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak Isaak Schorr, Av Beis Din of Bucharest (5596-5654) grandson and close disciple of the Gaon Rav Aharon Moshe Toibes, author of "Kernei Reem".

He served as rabbi of Bucharest for almost thirty years from 1873 and was very influential. He was extremely well-versed in Torah, was a halachic arbiter and had an expansive knowledge of many subjects (Encylopedia L'Chachmei Romania, section two, p. 735).