Friday, May 15, 2009

Menachem Ziemba postscript and works

The only commentary I have is that with the burning of Warsaw , thousands of pages of the writings of R Ziemba were lost: The Responsa would have been most illuminating but mankind's darkness precluded it being preserved.

QUOTE . Totzos Chaim, a work on the laws pertaining to carrying on Shabbos, written in honour of Rabbi Ziemba's father-in-law who died in 1920 Zera Avraham (seed of Abraham), a correspondence between Rabbi Ziemba and Rabbi Avraham Luftbier of Warsaw, who died at a very young age Gur Arye Yehuda, a book of novellae by Moshe Yehuda Arye, Rabbi Ziemba's prodigious son, who died at the age of 19 in 1924. It also contained some correspondence between father and son. Tens of thousands of pages of works authored by Rabbi Ziemba were destroyed in the burning of the Warsaw Ghetto. Among these was a treatise on the entire Rambam called Machaze Hamelech, another on the Talmud Yerushalmi called Menachem Yerushalaim, as well as hundreds of responsa and novellae on Bavli, Shulchan Aruch, Midrash and many other parts of the Torah. These works were lost for posterity






Postscript
In 1958, upon learning that the Polish Government was
planning to rebuild the area of the ghetto that included Rabbi Ziemba's grave,
his brothers Rabbi Avraham and Rabbi Yitzchok Meir Ziemba (who were with him to
the very end) and others expended great efforts to exhume his body and bring it
to Israel. After
weeks of work by surveyors and others, his grave was finally located - all
landmarks remembered by the survivors had been destroyed in the interim. His
body was flown to Israel and after a funeral attended by all the Moetzes Gedolei
HaTorah and tens of thousands of people, he was finally laid to rest on
Har
HaMenuchot
.

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Works
Totzos Chaim, a work on the laws pertaining to carrying on Shabbos, written in honour of
Rabbi Ziemba's father-in-law who died in 1920
Zera Avraham (seed of
Abraham), a
correspondence between Rabbi Ziemba and Rabbi Avraham Luftbier of Warsaw, who
died at a very young age
Gur Arye Yehuda, a book of novellae by Moshe Yehuda
Arye, Rabbi Ziemba's prodigious son, who died at the age of 19 in 1924.
It also
contained some correspondence between father and son.
Tens of thousands of
pages of works authored by Rabbi Ziemba were destroyed in the burning of the
Warsaw Ghetto. Among these was a treatise on the entire Rambam called
Machaze Hamelech, another on the Talmud Yerushalmi
called Menachem Yerushalaim, as well as hundreds of responsa and novellae on Bavli, Shulchan Aruch, Midrash and many
other parts of the Torah. These works were lost for posterity

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