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Commentary on R. Jeroham ben Meshullam’s Toledot Adam ve-Havah section Hava, by R. Judah Samuel Ashkenazi. Toledot Adam ve-Hava was a popular halakhic work until superseded by the Arba'ah Turim. It is arranged according to the cycle of human life, from birth to death. The section on; the section on Hava covers those halakhot pertinent from marriage until death. In Toledot Adam ve-Havvah, R. Jeroham quotes the opinions of leading scholars of France, Spain, and Provence, and transmits the customs of various communities and countries. R. Joseph Caro, R. Samuel de Medina, and others, quoted Toledot Adam ve-Havvah extensively. The Maggid (heavenly mentor) who spoke to R. Caro called him Jeroham Temiri ("Jeroham the Secret"). The title page is dated with the verse, “he Lord will give loving kindness and glory” (Psalms 84:12). There are three pages of approbations from several rabbis in Leghorn, and an introduction form R. Ashkenazi. The text is comprised of the text of Toledot Adam ve-Havah in the center of the page in square letters and Yissa Berakhah on the sides in rabbinic type. Yissa Berakhah is a detailed, lengthy, and comprehensive commentary. It is an exposition and halakhic clarification of section 22 of part 2 of the Toledot Adam ve-Havvah dealing with the laws of marriage. The continuation was not published.
R. Jeroham ben Meshullam (c. 1290–1350) was a Spanish talmudist. Born in Provence, he was a victim of the expulsion of the Jews from France in 1306, and wandered in various countries until he arrived in Toledo, Spain, where, living in utter poverty, he continued his studies under R. Asher b. Jehiel (the Rosh), andR. Abraham b. Moses Ismail, a pupil of Solomon b. Abraham Adret. In his first known work, the Sefer Mesharim, on civil law, R. Jeroham arranged the relevant laws according to their subjects, noted their sources and origins in the Talmud, and collected the decisions of many scholars. He was meticulous in arranging his work in such a way that "any man, whether a great scholar or a minor student, might easily find any law that he wished." Jeroham states, "After my friends saw its usefulness, they pressed me to compose a similar work relating to the positive and negative commandments, and I yielded to their entreaties." He then composed his second book, Toledot Adam ve- Hava. Both works were printed for the first time in Constantinople in 1516, and thereafter there was a certain revival of interest in them. The few editions of the book are all based upon the editio princeps which was printed from a very corrupt manuscript, and therefore was not much used by students. Very few commentaries were composed to it; for those that were, legend had it that either the commentator died prematurely or the commentary was lost.
R. Judah Samuel Ashkenazi, (1780?–1849) was a Palestinian scholar. Hewent on a mission on behalf of the Tiberias community in 1820, probably to North Africa; visited Gibraltar and Italy; and paid a second visit to North Africa in 1833. R. Ashkenazi went to Leghorn c. 1842 in order to arrange for the publication of his works, but died there. His most important works are: Yissa Berakhah (Leghorn, 1822), Geza Yishai, a compendium of laws in alphabetical order (part 1, letters Alef-Yod, Leghorn, 1842). R. Ashkenazi was especially interested in the Sephardi prayer book. He assembled all the relevant rules and published; Beit Oved (1843), on prayers for week days; Beit Menuhah (1843), for the Sabbath; Beit Mo'ed, part 1 (Beit ha-Sho'evah (Leghorn, 1849)) for Sukkot and Simhat Torah. He died while the book was in process of publication, and as a result of his death the manuscript of the remaining three sections on the other festivals was lost. |
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סובב הולך על הלכות ... רבינו ירוחם זלה"ה חלק חוה נתיב כב [עם הפנים] ... בדיני נשי גיטי וקדושי ... אשר טפחתי ורביתי ... בהררי קודש ... טבריא ... יהודה שמואל אשכנזי ס"ט ... העומד היום בתוך הגולה ... למען ציון ובוני"ה ... חכמים ... דיתבי וגרסי באורייתא ... בצוק"י טבריא ... שנת ח'ן' ו'כ'ב'ו'ד' י'ת'ן' ה''
בפרט השנה יש לחשב שם הוי"ה במלואו. הסכמות: דייני ליוורנו: ר' שלמה מלאך, ר' שמואל ב"ר משה הכהן ור' דוד מועטי, לך-לך תקפ"ב; ר' מרדכי ניסים, ליוורנו, כז תשרי תקפ"ב; ר' יעקב אבוקאייא, ליוורנו, תקפ"ב.
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