Marcheshet – Handwritten Glosses by the Chazon Ish

Marcheshet – Handwritten Glosses by the Chazon Ish

Marcheshet, responsa and novellae by R. Chanoch Henoch Eigis, a rabbi of Vilna, Part I, on Orach Chaim and Yoreh Deah, with sections on the topics of Hazamah (refuting witnesses) and Ye'ush (despair). Bilgoraj: Notte Kronenberg, 1931. First edition.
Copy of the Chazon Ish, with glosses in his handwriting. The book contains nine scholarly glosses, some or all of them handwritten by R. Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz, the Chazon Ish (some of the glosses may have been written by another member of his household, or written by him while lying in bed or another position that made writing difficult; in any case, the contents and style of glosses are typical of the Chazon Ish's study method).

R. Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz (1879-1953), author of the Chazon Ish, a foremost scholar in Halachah and Jewish thought in our times. A preeminent Torah scholar and hidden righteous man, his first book Chazon Ish was published in 1911 anonymously, since then he has been known by the name of his book. In his great modesty, he would sign his name with his initials only: "Ish". After World War I, during which he fled to Belarus, he returned in 1920 to Lithuania and lived for several years in Vilna. He immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1933, where he became recognized as the leading Torah authority, and stood at the helm of the renaissance of the Torah world in our generation. He authored and published numerous volumes of Chazon Ish, which were written with great toil and in-depth study, covering nearly all Talmudic topics.
During the time the Chazon Ish lived in Vilna, he was a close associate of the rabbis of the city, R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinski and R. Chanoch Eigis, author of the Marcheshet, who would discuss Torah with him and held him in high esteem (Pe'er HaDor, a biography of the Chazon Ish (I, p. 340), describes the departure of the Chazon Ish for Eretz Israel on Motza'ei Shabbat 7 Tammuz 1933 – heading the crowd of well-wishers on the platform of the Vilna train station were R. Chaim Ozer and R. Chanoch Eiges).

[3], 3-124, [1] leaves + [2] leaves – front and back printed wrappers. 34 cm. High-quality paper. Good condition. Stains and wear. Original binding (with new spine), with minor damage.