Beschreibung:

A lot containing hundreds of pages of proof and addenda to "Ha-Eshel" commentary on Megilat Ta'anit, in the handwritin of Rabbi Avraham Eliyahu Bornstein, an important Jerusalem sage. The first edition of this commentary was published in Jerusaelm in 1908. Jerusalem [1910s}. This book is the main comprehensive commentary to this Braita of Megilat Ta'anit, and is printed til today in "Oz Ve-Hadar" edition. Its writer was a wise scholar who labored to reveal the deepest aspects of this Braita. He Received enthusiastic approbations from the Rabbis of Jerusalem: Rabbi Hayim Berlin, Rabbi Yosef Hayim Sonnenfeld, and the rabbinical court who writes he is a "great scholar". His intention to further enlarge this work in a second edition did not materialize, and these pages are all that is left of it, bundled in an old pillow case. Rabbi Avraham Eliyahu Bornstein (passed away in Jerusalem after 1928), son of the Trestina Gaon, Rabbi Yechiel Mich ben Rabbi Zerach Ben Tomer [Bornstein] (1818-1892), Av Beit Din of Trestina near Bialistok and Horodna. Author of Kechem She'arim responsa, and books "Sova Shmachot" and "Minha Hadashah". Rabbi Avraham Eliyahu was of the family of Hagr"a, and is named after him amd his brother Avraham. (The Ben Tomer family - Rabbi Ya'akov was from the Portugal exiles who settled in the town of Tomer near Safed and in 1684 went as emissary to Ashkenaz to raise funds for the Jewish community in Safed, and settled there). Over 500 pages (not counted), notes and original pages of the printed edition with many additions in the margins and between the lines. Various conditions. Added: a copy of the Megilat Ta'anit book, Jerusalem, 1908.