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Novellae on tractates and the Nimmukei Yosef, of R. Joseph Habiba by R. Ya’akov Meir ben Hayyim Padovah. There are two title pages, the first stating that it is Ketonet Passim (a long sleeved rope, Genesis 37:3, II Samuel 13:18), a commentary on the Nimmukei Yosef with the intention of reviewing the positions of all the early sages noted there and through them explaining the Alfasi. It is accompanied by Hitse Yehonatan, to explain R. Yehonaton on Rav Alfas on Eruvin. It describes R. Padovah as av bet din in Brisk, Lita, author of Mekor Mayyim Hayyim, responsa, and Nahalat Mayyim. The verso of the title page has the disclaimer against confusing contemporary gentiles with those from an earlier period when terms such as akum or nocri are used. The second title page follows, giving the same information in a slightly different format. There is an introduction from R. Padovah, in which he states that he entitled the work Ketonet Passim, for just asour father Jacob made a ketonet passim for his son Joseph, “so I, the infant פעוט made a garment and cloak for the Nimmukei Yosef to explain his deep words. The text follows in two columns in rabbinic letters, beginning with tractate Mo’ed Katan, followed by Yevamot. The second part of the volume is Hitse Yehonatan on Eruvin, and the third part is Ketonet Passim on the Bavas.
R. Joseph Habiba (beginning of the 15th century) was a Spanish talmudic scholar. Virtually no biographical details are known of R. Habiba. His teachers were R. Nissim ben Reuben (the Ran) and R. Hasdai Crescas. Author of novellae to the Talmud and a commentary on R. Isaac Alfasi known as the Nimmukei Yosef, he is regarded as the last of the rishonim to comment on the Talmud and the Hilkhot ha-Rif. It was previously thought that Habiba wrote commentaries only to those tractates of Alfasi on which Nissim b. Reuben did not comment, but it is now believed that his commentary covered the whole work. Only his commentaries to tractates Mo'ed Katan, Yevamot, Bava Kamma, Bava Mezia, Bava Batra, Sanhedrin, and Makkot have been published in editions of the Talmud, but his commentaries to the tractates Megillah and Pesahim (1960) and to Gittin (1963) and Avodah Zarah in M. J. Blau (ed.), Shitat ha-Kadmonim al Massekhet Avodah Zarah (1969) have been published. His commentaries on Berakhot, Shabbat, Ta'anit, and Hullin, are still in manuscript. Of his novellae to the Talmud there have been published: Shevuot (in Beit ha-Behirah of Menahem ha-Meiri; Leghorn, 1795), and Ketubbot and Nedarim (in the Ishei ha-Shem, ibid., 1795, new ed. 1960).
In his commentary R. Habiba usually quotes the geonim, the Spanish posekim until Jacob b. Asher, and Yom Tov Vidal of Tolosa. According to Malachi ha-Kohen (in his Yad Malakhi), Habiba differs from Nissim in that he quotes the aforementioned authors and Yom Tov b. Abraham Ishbili, and in that he commences each of the novellae with "the author says" and concludes with "thus far the words of the author," something not found in the works of other rishonim. It is this characteristic, as well as the numerous quotations from the works of R. Yom Tov Ishbili and R. Asher ben Jehiel, which serve as indubitable indications of the author of the Nimmukei Yosef. R. Habiba's style is direct and succinct. Some see his commentaries as aimed at encouraging the study of Talmud rather than the Hilkhot ha-Rif, which, through its wide circulation, tended to displace the study of the Talmud. Consequently Nimmukei Yosef is regarded as a supplement rather than a commentary, the addition of passages of the Talmud omitted by Alfasi making the talmudic text readily available to the student. The Nimmukei Yosef is a valuable source for clarifying the opinions and approach of various rishonim, since in addition to quoting from their actual works he also gives oral traditions handed down by their pupils. He was highly regarded in later generations as an authoritative posek. |
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... ביאור הנמוקי יוסף [לר' יוסף חביבא]... ובאזר לבושו נראה אור... על רוב שיטות ודברי הרב האלפסי ז"ל (מסכת מועד קטן... יבמות... בבא קמא... בבא מציעא... בבא בתרא). ונלוה אליו קונטרס חצי יהונתן... ביאור (על [פירוש]) הר"ר יהונתן [ב"ר
דוד הכהן מלוניל] על הרב אלפס (מסכת) עירובין... פעל ועשה... מו"ה יעקב מאיר האב"ד דק"ק בריסק דליטא בהרה"ג מו"ה חיים... בהתאמצות הנרתע מרוממות קדושת... המחבר... לבשהו חרדה לעורר את המדפיסים ולקבל עליו... משא ההגהה... הש"ל [הקטן
שמואל לוריא]...
שני שערים.
בשער הראשון: ת"ר. אולם באותה שנה לא היה קיים בית דפוס בקעניגסבערג.
הספר נדפס אחר תרט"ו, שהמחבר שנפטר בשנת תרט"ו נזכר בהגהת הבן, בדף טו, ב (של הספירה השנייה) בברכת המתים. באותה תקופה הביא ר' שמואל לוריא לדפוס גם "שאלות ותשובות מן השמים", מאת ר' יעקב הלוי ממארוויש, [קעניגסבערג תרט"ו?]. עיין: יעקב
הלוי ממארוויש.
בספירה השנייה: דף טו,ב: הגה"ה מבנו [של המחבר] הרב מוהרא"מ [ר' אהרן משה] פאדווא. דף טז-כד,א: דיני ברירה. דף כד: ראיתי להעלות קצת חידושים מחתני ... מוה' ארי' ליבוש... בן הרב... מו"ה זאב מבייאלע, בסוגיא דמודעא ואונס. |
