Masechtos Yoma, Sukkah – Slavita 1809 – Hagahos of the Holy Gaon Rav Shmuel Heller
Masechtos Yoma and Sukkah, printed in Slavita 1809.
A personal copy of the Holy Gaon Rav Shmuel Heller of Tzfas, On the title page of Maseches Yoma, his sacred signature, along with a handwritten list of the primary seforim of the Acharonim on the masechta. On daf 35a of Maseches Sukkah, a lengthy gloss in his ksav yad kodesh,
in which he references thirty (!) different sources—never before published!
The Heilige Gaon, Rav Shmuel Heller (1803–1884), was one of the great chassidic figures who shaped Yiddishkeit in Eretz Yisroel. In his youth, he had the zechus to bask in the presence of the Chozeh of Lublin, who is said to have foretold his entire future in just twenty-four words.
Orphaned at a young age, he traveled to Eretz Yisroel, where he formed a deep bond with the heilige Rav Avrohom Dov of Avritch, the Bas Ayin. After the Bas Ayin’s passing in 1840, Rav Shmuel assumed leadership of the Jewish community in Tzfas.
Among his seforim: Derech Nesher, Divrei Mishpat, Derech Nesher (a different work by the same title), Kavod Melachim, and Refuos U’Segulos.
