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Lot #    15850
Auction End Date    10/24/2006 10:24:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Tiferet Shemu'el
Title (Hebrew)    תפארת שמואל
Author    [First Ed.] R. Zvi Hirsch Koidonover
City    Frankfort am Main
Publication Date    1682-83
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. [2], 5-126 ff., 188:148 mm., light age and damp staining, wide margins. A very good copy bound in contemporary marbled paper over boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Aaron Samuel b. Israel Kaidanover (c. 1614–1676), talmudic scholar and preacher. R. Koidonover took his name from Koidanovo near Minsk, where he was born. He was known also by the abbreviation Maharshak (M orenu H a-R av Sh emu'el K aidanover). In his youth he studied in Brest-Litovsk under R. Jacob and his son R. Joshua Heschel of Lublin. Following the Chmielnicki pogroms of 1648 he fled to Vilna where he became a member of the bet din of R. Moses Lima, author of the Helkat Mehokek, the other members being R. Shabbetai b. Meir ha-Kohen (the Shakh), and R. Ephraim Katz, author of the Sha'ar Efrayim. In 1656 during the war between Russia and Sweden in Poland he took refuge in Kurow near Lublin, where he served as rabbi, and there his two daughters were killed by Cossacks. He went to Austria, where he became a rabbi in a small town, and from there to Moravia where he became rabbi of Nikolsburg. Subsequently he was rabbi and av bet din of important communities, including Fuerth, Reischer, Brest-Litovsk, and Frankfort. He stayed some six months in the sister communities of Altona, Hamburg, and Wandsbeck in 1669 where he enacted many takkanot which were included in the regulations of Altona. Toward the end of his life he returned to Poland and was appointed av bet din of Cracow. He passed on in Chmielnik.

R. Koidonover wrote many important halakhic and homiletical works. In his learning he sought to return to the primary sources of the halakhah and refrained from relying upon the aharonim. He also wrote responsa, largely on the permissibility of agunot to remarry, which had become an urgent question as a result of the massacres. His sermons contain in popular form the ideas of the kabbalists of Safed and Poland. His main work is the Birkat ha-Zevah (Amsterdam, 1669), novellae and glosses to most of the order of Kodashim, with an autobiographical introduction. Three more of his works were published by his son R. Zevi Hirsch: Birkat Shemu'el (Frankfort, 1682), sermons partially kabbalistic in content; Emunat Shemu'el (ibid., 1683), responsa; and Tiferet Shemu'el (ibid., 1696), novellae on the Talmud, glosses and novellae to the Piskei ha-Rosh of R. Asher b. Jehiel, to the Turim and Beit Yosef, and hassagot on the novellae of R. Samuel Edels. R. Koidonover also compiled a book on the procedure to be followed in executing divorces and halizah, which is in manuscript in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

          
Paragraph 2    חיבור... ר' אהרן שמואל קאיידנובר בן... ר' ישראל קאיידנוור זצוק"ל ואור תורתו היתה זורחת בק"ק ורנקבורט דמיין יצ"ו ובק"ק קראקא... הוא חבור... על גפ"ת והשגות על... הרא"ש (השגות על מהרש"א) וחידושי ארבעה טורים... הובא לבית הדפוס ע"י... ר' צבי הירש בן... המחבר...

דף [2] הקדמת בן המחבר. הקדמה נוספת נדפסה ממנו בראש "חדושים על הרא"ש" (דף לז,ב). חידושים לטור אבן-העזר לא נדפסו. ראינו טופס שבו נוסף קולופון: זכרה אלהים לטובה לאהובי גיסי... ר' יהודה ליב בן חמי... ר' יצחק כ"ץ גנז מק"ק ורנקבורט... בצלו חמדתי... משך זמן הדפוס... הסכמות: ר' יוסף שמואל ב"ר צבי מקראקא, ורנקבורט דמיין, כח טבת תנ"ו; ר' גבריאל ב"ר יהודא ליב [עשקעלעס] מקראקא "אב"ד ור"מ דק"ק מיץ במדינות צרפת", ראש-חודש אדר-א תנ"ו; ר' דוד אופנהיים מניקלשפורג, הנובר, יז אלול תנ"ה.

          
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Listing Classification
Period
17th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Novellae:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica