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Manuscript, novellae on Tractate Bava Metzi'a. Autograph of R. Nachum (Weisfish) of Szadek. [Jerusalem, c. 1850s-1860s]. R. Nachum Rabbi of Szadek (1813-1868), son of Rabbi Moshe Avraham Loewy-Weisfish was a Polish Torah scholar and disciple of the author of Chemdat Shlomo. At the age of 18, he was ordained by his teacher and thereafter served for several years as rabbi of Szadek, Poland. In 1843, together with his two brothers, R. Asher Lemel, Rabbi of Golina and Rabbi Ya'akov Eliyahu Leib, he ascended to Eretz Israel following a dream beheld by all three brothers prevailing upon them to ascend to Eretz Israel. Most of the day, he would sit wrapped in his tallit and donning his tefillin and assiduously studied the Torah. He established the Ran Yeshiva in which he delivered scholarly discourses to young Jerusalem Torah scholars. Together with the tsaddik Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant, he studied Kabbalah from the Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda HaCohen. Died in a cholera plague in 1868. Inscribed on his tombstone on the Mount of Olives: "Holy pure man, at the age of eight began searching for G-d and dedicated all his days to Torah study, fasting and abstinence. He studied Torah day and night without respite. He merited studying and teaching Torah and had many disciples…pious and humble…". Leaf, 23.5 cm. Written on both sides, more than 70 autograph lines. Good condition. Stains. Minor damages to margins. Enclosed is a report by an expert of rabbinic manuscripts, which confirms that the leaf is an autograph of R. Nachum of Szadek.