Dedications
It
is very common to dedicate a Sefer to an individual or a family. Probably,
today, the best known Sefer dedication , is The Schottenstien Shas.
This custom
goes back to the times of the Gaonim, & maybe even earlier.
1)R.
Amram Gaon dedicated his “Seder Hatefilos” to R. Yitzchok Bar Shimon who
sent him ten Golden coins for the Yeshiva in Mechasya.
2)R.
Menachem b. Zerach dedicated his Sefer “Tzeidah Laderech” to Don Shmuel
Abarbanel.
3)R.
Ovadyah Seforno dedicated his Sefer “Ohr Olam” to King Henri 2nd (France)
4)R.Dovid
di Poumis dedicated his Sefer “Tzemach Dovid” to Pope Sixtus 5th
5)R.Menashe
b Yisroel dedicated his Sefer “Mikveh Yisroel”(Hope of Israel) to The British
Parliament , Courts of England & Prime Minister Oliver Cromwell.
6)R.
Mordechai Gimpel Halevi dedicated his Sefer “Tochachas Megillah” to the
President
of Switzerland.
7)Efraim
Pinner* dedicated his “GermanTranslation on Meseches Brochos ”
to Tsar
Nicholas 1st (Russia)
*The Chasam Sofer pulled back the Haskama he gave him.
Correction
I wrote that
R. Mordechai Gimpel dedicated his Sefer "Tochachas Megilah"
to the
President of Switzerland. I took this information from the Otzar Yisrael.
(Eisenstein)His
information is incorrect. He actually dedicated the Sefer to
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