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Beit Yehuda on the Torah and Kol Yehuda on Shut from the 4 sections of the Shulchan Aruch—1934. With a rare typed letter from the author Rabbi Alter Shapira of Vikna - Beit Yehuda on the Torah and Kol Yehuda on Shut from the 4 sections of the Shulchan Aruch—1934. With a rare typed letter from the author Rabbi Alter Shapira of Vikna Beit Yehuda on the Torah and Kol Yehuda on Shut from the 4 sections of the Shulchan Aruch—1934. on colorful paper mentions the two works with the year “1935.” The work has correspondence with gedolim of his generation. The author, Rabbi Alter Elyakim Shraga Shapira (1855-1936) was the son of the Admor Rabbi Chaim Shimon of Tlust. He was a descendant of Rabbi Pinchas of Koritz and tzaddikim of the Spitovka dynasty, and the gaon kabbalist Rabbi Shimshon of Ostropoli (the rest of his yichus appears in the Shem MiShimon and Mekor Chaim). His talents became apparent already as a youth. He received a blessing from his aunt, the Rabbanit Tzipporah (wife of the Torat Chaim of Kosov and daughter of Rabbi Meir of Spitovka), that he would merit growing up in Torah. He was the grandfather of Rabbi Avraham Yosef Shapira.