Periodical with chiddushei Torah that his students heard directly from their Rabbi the Maharil Diskin ztz”l in Jerusalem. Seven issues were published. In sum 24 leaves. The first of them was published on the 15th of Adar 1st, [1878]. The rest of the issues came out on a monthly basis.
The first six issues were published by Eliyahu and Moshe Hai Sasson Printers. The seventh printed by Salomon Printers.
20.5 cm. All the issues were printed without title pages. Instead at the beginning of the issues the dates were printed. In most of the issues there also appear chiddushim by “My father the Gaon, the author sh”lita, Rabbi Binyamin, ztz”l”. At the end of the fifth issue there is also a chiddush “from the son of the author the brilliant Rabbi Moreinu V’Rabbeinu Yizchak Yerucham נ”י. At the end of the sixth issue there is a question that Rabbi Yehoshua Leib asked in his father’s name, and he requests that the readers suggest answers and that the author, the Admor, would reply in the following issue.
Here all the issues are complete and in very good condition. New attractive binding.
Discovery: As was said above this well-known bibliographical periodical ends with leaf 24. Similarly on the disk, and in Shoshanat HaLevi 315. However in the copy before us, after leaf 24 there is an additional article 16 leaves long, also with the title “Torat HaOhel”, in the same style of letters as the periodical, and it bears another title called “Chiddushim L’Masechet Babba Batra”. All these additional 16 leaves bear this title Chiddushei Babba Batra, Torat HaOhel.
This article, in as far as we were able to trace, is not known in any bibliographical records. Discovery.