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Lot #    18979
Auction End Date    10/9/2007 11:01:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Peri ha-Adamah Part II
Title (Hebrew)    פרי האדמה, חלק ב
Author    [Only Ed. - R. Berlin Copy] R. Rafael Meyuches
City    Salonica
Publisher    Bezalel Ashkenazi
Publication Date    1752
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. [9], 174 ff., 309:207 mm., extra wide margins, light age and damp staining, minor scattered worming, old stamps. A very good copy bound in modern cloth boards.
          
Paragraph 1    The copy of R. Hayyim Berlin with his seal on many ff. R. Hayyim (1832–1912), eldest son of R. Naphtali Zevi Judah Berlin, head of the yeshivah at Volozhin for some 40 years. R. Hayyim Berlin received his education from his father and became conversant with all aspects of rabbinic literature as well as being well versed in Jewish subjects. At the age of seventeen he married into the wealthy Zeitlin family of Shklov, and later used part of his wealth to amass an excellent library which was acquired by the Yeshivat Ez Hayyim of Jerusalem after his death. In 1865 R. Berlin became the rabbi of Moscow. In 1889 he returned to Volozhin at the request of his aged father, who wanted his son to succeed him as head of the yeshivah. However, he was opposed by many of the Volozhin yeshivah students, who favored the election of his niece's husband, R. Hayyim Soloveichik, who was renowned for his unique analytical approach to talmudic study. The controversy soon ended with the forced closing of the school by the Russian government on January 22, 1892. With the closing of the yeshivah, R. Berlin became the rabbi of Yelizavetgrad (Kirovograd), where he remained until 1906, when he settled in Jerusalem. His erudition, family heritage, and patriarchal appearance gained for him a leading role on the Jerusalem scene, and in 1909 he was elected to succeed R. Samuel Salant as chief rabbi of the Ashkenazi community of Jerusalem.
          
Detailed
Description		    Novellae and expositions on the Rambam by R. Rafael Meyuches b. Samuel Meyuches(?1695–1771), chief rabbi (rishon le-Zion) of Jerusalem. R. Meyuhas was born in Jerusalem and studied in the yeshivah Bet Ya'akov, which he subsequently headed. In 1723 when the troubles of the Jewish community of Jerusalem were aggravated because of the harsh rule of its governor, Yussuf Pasha, R. Raphael was sent by R. Abraham Yizhaki, the rishon le-Zion, to Constantinople to plead for the governor's removal. R. Meyuhas served as av bet din in Jerusalem, his colleagues including R. Isaac Zerahiah Azulai and, much later, his son R. H. J. D. Azulai. In 1756 on the death of R. Israel Jacob Algazi, he was appointed rishon le-Zion. In one of his rulings R. Raphael endeavored to bring about a rapprochement between the Karaites and the Rabbanites, permitting the Karaites to send their children to the talmud torah. Tradition has it, however, that R. Raphael later recanted his ruling. He was the author of: Minhat Bikkurim (Salonika, 1752) on the Talmud; Peri ha-Adamah in 4 parts (ibid., 1752–57 (64?)), novellae on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah with responsa - appended to the fourth part are homilies called Penei ha-Adamah; Mizbah Adamah (ibid., 1777) on the Shulhan Arukh. R. Raphael was the brother of R. Abraham b. Samuel Meyuhas and the father of R. Moses Joseph Mordecai Meyuhas.
          
Paragraph 2    (על הרמב"ם)... אשר איזן וחקר... ר' מיוחס בכ"ר שמואל נר"ו איש ירוש[לים]...

חלק ב: [נזיקין-שופטים]. הוגה... ע"י... ר' יצחק הירירה נר"ו. דפוס בצלאל הלוי אשכנזי. בשנת ו'ת'ק'ו'ה' טובה לפ"ג [תקי"ב]. [9], קעד דף.

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0147616; EJ
        
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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