7 folio pages. 31×21 cm.
The writer was an outstanding scholar – apparent from the scholarly comment he wrote in the margins of page 6. HaGaon HaRav Avraham Yitzchak Block was the son and successor of his great father Rabbi Yosef Yehuda Leib Bloch – head and founder of the Telz Yeshiva in Lithuania. The father died on the 7th of Cheshvan [1929], and his son Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak served as Rosh Yeshiva until he was killed together with most of the yeshiva students in a nearby village by the Nazis. The murder took place on the 20th of Tammuz, 1941. After the Holocaust, in 1951, the Telz yeshiva students in Toronto published the Torah novellae of the Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Bloch, on the tractates of Seder Nezikin and Chulin. With a preface by his son-in-law Rabbi Baruch Sorotzkin, Rabbi Yitzchak Eizek Ausband, Rabbi Yosef Leib Itzkowitz and the author’s brother, Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Bloch, Rosh Yeshiva in Cleveland after the Holocaust.
A few of his novellae on Seder Moed are known, but none on tractate Pesachim. This is an important revelation of an unknown, lengthy lecture. The opening shiur on tractate Pesachim that the Rosh Yeshiva said in Telz at the height of its glory. [Photocopies will not be provided].
A few light tears in the margins. Fine-very fine condition.