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LOT 134א:
'Shulchan Aruch' with the Holy Signature and Hand-written Glosses of the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Sha'ag ztzk"l – Talmid ...
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'Shulchan Aruch' with the Holy Signature and Hand-written Glosses of the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Sha'ag ztzk"l – Talmid Muvhak of the 'Chatam Sofer' ztzk"l.
The Chatam Sofer said of him that "there is no righteous person like him in the whole country"
A large volume of Shulchan Aruch with a signature and glosses in the sacred handwriting of the Gra Sha’ag-Zwebner.
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Rabbi Avraham Sha’ag-Zwebner (1801-1873):
One of the important students of the 'Chatam Sofer', and the distinguished rabbi of the Gaon Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld.
At the age of three, he was orphaned by his father, Rabbi Yehuda Leib Sha'ag, and his mother handed him over to be educated by Rabbi Yitzchak Frankel. At the age of ten he knew a large part of the Shas. Before he reached the age of Mitzvot he was sent to the yeshiva of the Chatam Sofer in Pressburg, where he was ordained to the rabbinate. Rabbenu the Chatam Sofer praised him as
a "genius and a righteous man."
The last name "Sha'ag" was created after Rabbi Yehezkel Landau added the verse: "A lion roared (sha'ag) who will not be afraid" to the rabbinic ordination he gave to his father, who was one of his students.
Before he turned 25, he moved to serve as a rabbi in Stahlsdorf, Hungary, and opened a yeshiva there. Rabbi Avraham moved from Stahlsdorf to serve as rabbi in Kobersdorf, one of the seven communities in the Burgenland region of Hungary. There he served in the rabbinate for twenty-five years.
At the age of 72, immigrated to Israel with his family and settled in Jerusalem. In the "Hamigid" from Pressburg from the same year, it is said that in the city of Baden, thousands of people, including the rabbis of the communities, gathered to say goodbye to him. Weeping voices were heard from among those gathered, but he said to them: "My beloved sons and daughters, why are you crying? I am seventy-two years old today, I can no longer go out and come and fight God's war against the destroyers. The good Lord has mercy on my people, and has added to my days two years. Isn't it also here that you and I need to be ready every day for the voice that calls to me from above, got to your home, and go back to your maker."
