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Lot #    20544
Auction End Date    5/6/2008 10:15:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Omek Halakhah
Title (Hebrew)    עומק הלכה
Author    R. Jacob ben Samuel Bunim Koppelman
City    Amsterdam
Publisher    Jacob Soto, et. al.
Publication Date    1710
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [2], 36 ff. quarto 195:140 ff. , light age staining, nice margins. A very good copy bound in later boards, rubbed and split.
          
Detailed
Description		    Elucidation of the laws appertaining to Kilayim, Eruvin, etc., with the aid of numerous diagrams and models by R. Jacob ben Samuel Bunim Koppelman. Omek Halakhah also addresses the talmudic references to mathematics, botany, engineering, and geography; establishes the various weights and measures of the Talmud; and draws the site of the Temple, the candelabrum, the table of showbread, revealing considerable knowledge in all of these fields. Omek Halakhah has approbations from R. Zevi Hirsch ben Jacob Ashkenazi and R. Solomon ben Jacob Ayyalon.

Jacob ben Samuel Bunim Koppelman, (1555–1594) was a talmudic scholar distinguished for his broad erudition and interest in secular sciences. Jacob was born in Freiburg and studied under R. Mordecai R. Jaffe . Early in his life he embarked upon mathematical and astronomical studies, in addition to intensive occupation with traditional Jewish learning. He was also the author of Ohel Ya’akov (Freiburg, 1584), a commentary on R. Joseph Albo 's Ikkarim. It deals with the elucidation of difficult passages compiled by Jacob in Frankfurt in 1583, he is described as "the encyclopedic scholar and divine philosopher." Jacob also translated into rhymed Yiddish the Targum of the five scrolls, the Targum Sheni to Esther (Freiburg, c. 1584), and the Mishlei Shu'alim of R. Berechiah ha-Nakdan (ibid., 1588; Vilna, 1825).

          
Paragraph 2    בשנת תתן אמת' ליע'קב חסד לאברהם

מעבר לשער התנצלות המדפיס, ר' צבי הירש ב"ר גרשין[!] ז"ל משעברשין. הוא הוסיף גם הגהות בדף האחרון. הסכמות: ר' צבי הירש ב"ר יעקב [אשכנזי] מאובין, אמשטרדם, ז אדר-ב ת"ע; ר' שלמה ב"ר יעקב אאילייון, אמשטרדם, ג אדר-ב ת"ע.

          
Reference
Description		    BE ayin 278; EJ; CD-EPI
        
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Holland:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Math
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica