Leviyat Chen. Altona 1733. Only Edition - Copy of Rabbi Meir Shapira of Lublin

Leviyat Chen. New ...

Leviyat Chen. Altona 1733. Only Edition - Copy of Rabbi Meir Shapira of Lublin

Leviyat Chen. New Interpretations on the Sha”s by Rabbi Efraim Heksher. Altona, 1733. Only edition.

[1] 401 leaves, 33 cm. On pages 75-76 are sketches of the the stones of the Ephod with the names of the tribes

The venerated Gaon Rabbi Meir Shapiro Gaon Av Beis Din of Lublin (1887-1934). Founder of the illustrious Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva, president of Agudas Yisroel of Poland and originator of the idea of learning 'Daf Hayomi' of Talmud Bavli. Direct descendant of the holy Rabbi Pinchas of Koretz. Received his rabbinic and Hora'ah Semicha by his grandfather the 'Minchas Shai', the Machazeh Avraham of Brody, Rabbi Meir Arik, and the Maharsham of Berezhany. A leading Chassid of Rabbi Yisroel of Chortekov. The Rav of Gliniany, Sanok, Piotrków and eventually, Gaon Av Beis Din of Lublin, where he founded the glorious 'Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin'. The Gaon and his wife the rebbetzin had no children, but his legacy of Daf HaYomi and Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin, remain forever and remembered by all.

Rabbi Efraim Heksher (died 1759) was Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva in Altona and Hamburg and was close to Rabbi Yaakov Amidan (HaYavet”z), and helped him in his struggle against the last of the Sabbateans. See more about him in Yehezkiel Dukes “The Sages of Altona, Hamburg, and Wandsbek, ” Hamburg, 1908, pg. 32.