Handwritten sermons. Written by Rabbi Avraham Shimshon Kolka, son-in-law of Rabbi Nachum Trebitsch. Autograph. [1848-1851].
About 100 leaves of different sizes, bound together. Sermons for the high holidays, Sukkot, Shabbat HaGadol, Shabbat Zachor and more – most in Yiddish-German with a few leaves in Hebrew. Author’s autograph with the ethical lessons he imparted to his congregation. Features two Hebrew leaves in the middle with text of a Shabbat HaGadol sermon delivered by Rabbi Nachum Trebitsch in 1838. Rabbi Nachum Trebitsch lived from 1779 through 1842. In his sermon, written in 1838, he is mentioned with an attribution indicating that he was still alive. However, in his son-in-law’s sermon written in 1848, he is already mentioned as deceased. He was the Av Beit Din in Nikolsburg from 1831, following the passing of its previous Rabbi, Rabbi Mordechai Benet. Rabbi Avraham Shimshon Kolka was the rabbi in Postel-Podwyn, Moravia. He wrote an elegy for his father-in-law. [It was published in the preface to the Shu”t Rabbi Nachum Trebitsch published by Machon Yerushalayim in 1989.]
New, semi-leather binding. Minimal aging stains. Very fine condition.