Bidspirit auction | Tov Yigal, stamp of the

Tov Yigal, stamp of the author Rabbi Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal 1926. Uncut copy, Original wrappers - Sefer Tov Yigal, with drashot and shut on Mishnah Sachir, by the Gaon Rabbi Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal, Av Beit Din of Piešťany. At the end is a sermon called Siach Yitzhak (separate title page), from his close friend Rabbi Yitzhak Weiss, Ra’avad of Werba. First edition, Bardejov -Slovakia, 1926. 43, 26 leaves. Recto of  title page has the author’s stamp : “Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal,   Ra’avad of Piešťan & Rabbi of Kestalan & its environs.” Very good condition, Uncut copy in it's original printed wrappers. Rabbi Issachar Shlomo Teitchtel hy”d (1885-1945) was the son of Yitzhak and author of the Mishnah Sachir and the book Em HaBanim Semecha. He was a student in the Pressburg yeshiva and under the Arugas HaBosem of Khust and others. He served as rabbi and rosh yeshiva, a dayan and teacher in the small Jewish community of the resort town of Pitshiyan, in the Nietra district of western Slovakia. Until the Shoah he, like most of Hungarian Jewry, held strong anti-Zionist views. He was close to the Admor the Minchas Eliezer of Munkatch, who was among the strongest opponents of Zionism. The events of the Shoah caused him to re-evaluate his worldview. He began to study deeply the sugiyot related to exile and the geulah, redemption either through nature or Hashem, Yishuv of the Land of Israel, and the relationship to those who built it while not following commandments. As a result of these searches he changed his perspective and began to support Zionism and immigration to Israel. He wrote about this in the book Em HaBanim Semecha, which has since served as one of the foundational works of religious Zionism. He wrote most of the work while in an attic in the home he used to hide from the Nazis. He cited hundreds of sources from memory. The book was published in Budapest in 1943. He was murdered in 1945  and there are a few versions of how and when that took place.