Handwritten work on some of the Talmudic tractates, something of a Piskei Tosafot by the gaon Rabbi Shmuel Rapoport, Av Beit Din of Springfield, Massachusetts. Autograph.
This manuscript is arranged as kind of a Piskei Tosafot , divided into tractates and chapters, with hadrans at the end of each tractate. It was apparently prepared for print, but never printed.
Rabbi Shmuel Rapoport [1853-1938] was the Av Beit Din of Springfield. He was born in a small suburb of Kovno where he studied with Rabbi Hirsch Niewieser. He was rabbinically ordained by the town rabbis and attached himself to the ba’alei mussar, the disciples of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter. In 1901, he was invited to serve as rabbi of the Jewish community of Springfield. He served in this capacity for approximately 24 years. He also served as a dayan in distant locales, but refused to give up on his service as rabbi of Springfield in favor of other cities. He ascended to the Land of Israel in 1924, where he settled in Jerusalem, in the Zichron Moshe neighborhood. He continued with his public activities in Jerusalem as well, focusing on assisting rabbis and Talmudic scholars from Russia. In Jerusalem, he made his place in the Central Synagogue of Zichron Moshe, until his passing.
[69] leaves, almost all written on both sides. 32×20 cm.
Fine condition. Not bound.