Darchei Tshuva on the Shulchan Aruch (Munkatch), first section, first edition. Vilna 1892 with the inscription “Moga.”

Darchei Tshuva on the Shulchan Aruch (Munkatch), first section, first edition. Vilna 1892 with the inscription “Moga.”
Darchei Tshuva on the Shulchan Aruch Yoreh De’ah, halachot of Shechita and Treifut, a comprehensive work by the Admor Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Shapira of Munkatch. First edition from the author’s lifetime, printed by the Ram Brothers and Widow. Important endorsements: Rabbi Yitzhak Elchanan of Kovna and more. Additional cover for the section on halachot treifut. [4], 108 pages (216 sides), [1], 109-259 pages (716 sides). Tape on the back of the cover, and a number of the first pages have a little damage to text, small tear at the top of the cover, various stains, binding preserved (covered in paper), generally good condition. Cover has the inscription in pencil: “Moga.” And on the blank front page and cover the inscription: “from the books of Dov Sternbuch.” Stamps of ownership: “Shlomo of Tajir, Rabbi of Tashkent, and the surrounding area.” See below. Rabbi Dr. Shlomo Tajir (1866-1936) was Chief Rabbi of the Jews of Bukhara in Uzbekistan, and in Beirut for Jews of Lebanon and Syria, and the Jewish community in Damascus. He was born in Jerusalem to Rabbi Moshe ben Yitzhak Tajir (the Mabit), who was head of the Sefardi Beit Din there. He studied under Jerusalem sages and also had a general education in science and foreign languages in European cities. He was appointed the Chief Rabbi of Tashkent (also in Uzbekistan) until 1912, and then he was accepted as Chacham Bashi in Baghdad. In 1910 he received an invitation to an audience with the Russian Czar and the Minister Stolifin, thanks to which the government cancelled the expulsion order that had been passed on the Jews of Bukhara (Arzei HaLevanon 2122). Rabbi Dov Sternbuch of Gateshead and Bnei Brak was the son of Rabbi Asher of London, a descendent of the Gra. He was a huge talmid chacham who knew the Shas by heart. He was close with many sages, and was a student of the Gra”a Dessler. He had a special relationship with Maran Rabbi Haim Kanievsky, who forbid him from asking those at his beit midrash not to stand in his honor. He was brother of the Ra’avad of Antwerp, Rabbi Eliyahu Sternbuch, and the Ra’avad of the Charedi community, Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch. Died in 1990 when he was on his way to Minchah, aged 96.