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Only edition of this halakhic work clarifying practical questions and issues in halakhah in the Mishneh Le-Melekh of R. Judah ben Samuel Rosanes by R. Mordecai ben Moses Luria. Appended to Mishneh Le-Melekh Aharon is Eleh ha-Mitzvot on the enumerationof the mitzvot, also by R. Luria. There are approbations from R. Jacob Saul Eliyashar and R. Elia David Rabbinovitz Teomim. The basis upon which Mishneh Le-Melekh Aharon is built, Mishneh Le-Melekh is in turn an important commentary on Maimonides Mishneh Torah, now printed with almost all editions of that work. It is considered one of the most erudite and penetrating commentaries on the Mishneh Torah.
R. Judah ben Samuel Rosanes (1657–1727) was a Turkish rabbi, posek and preacher. Rosanes was born in Constantinople. He studied under R. Solomon ha-Levi the Elder and R. Joseph b. Isaiah Trani (grandson of R. Joseph b. Moses Trani ). In his youth, he worked in the business of Abraham Rosanes, his uncle and father-in-law, who had business connections with the Turkish army. After his uncle's death, Judah engaged in business with his two brothers, Ḥayyim and Aaron. Later he was appointed to the rabbinate of Constantinople, where he served until his death. He was regarded as one of the greatest Turkish rabbis of his time and was among the rabbis of Constantinople who persecuted the Shabbateans there. In 1714 he was one of the signatories to the ban of excommunication against Nehemiah Ḥiyya Ḥayon that was circulated to the whole Diaspora. In 1725, however, three Constantinople rabbis, of whom Judah was one, released Ḥayon from the excommunication on condition that he abandon the study of Kabbalah and Shabbatean beliefs. The rescinding of the excommunication angered the other rabbis of the town. Apparently this was the reason for zealots' breaking into his house and destroying his writings. What remained of his writings was collected after his death and prepared for publication by his pupil, R. Jacob Culi . His Mishneh la-Melekh, novellae and disquisitions on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, was first published in Constantinople in 1731 and later reprinted together with the text and other commentaries. Rosanes' fame rests upon this work, one of the most Rosanes' second work, published by Culi, was Parashat Derakhim (Constantinople, 1728), containing 26 sermons on halakhah and aggadah, and appended to his Derekh Mitzvotekha on the 613 commandments of the Torah according to the enumerations of Maimonides, Nahmanides , and R. Moses b. Jacob of Coucy. The book also contains his notes and glosses to Sefer ha-Ḥinnukh, attributed to Aaron ha-Levi of Barcelona. Excerpts from the Parashat Derakhim were published also in the Mikhlal Yofi (Frankfurt on the Oder, 1775) of Isaac b. Ben Zion of Apta.
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... באלו דברים אשר... רבינו המשנה למלך [ר' יהודה רוזאניס] סיים דבריו בלשון וצ"ע בארבעה ספרים הראשונים מי"ד ספרי הרמב"ם. גם... קונטרס... על מנין המצות תדירות (המפורשים בשני ספרים הראשונים מספרי יד החזקה... במספר ששה ושלשים) ונקרא
בשם אלה המצות... אשר חברתי אנכי... מרדכי לוריא. כן... הזמין ה' לפני טורים ישנים (נדפסו בריווא דטרינטו) משנת ש"ך עם הגהות ומראה מקומות (מהגאון מהר"א [ר' אברהם] מפראג ומהגאון ר' יחיאל [ב"ר ראובן אשכנזי]), אמרתי להעתק את הנחוץ
ולהדפיס פה (על ב טורים א"ח ויו"ד... וגם לעשות עליהם הערות ותקונים)...
דף ג-ד, א: הערות מאירות, מאת ר' אלי' דוד ראבינאוויץ תאומים. הסכמות רבני ירושלים: ר' יעקב שאול אלישר;
ר' אלי' דוד ראבינאוויץ תאומים, ג פינחס תרס"ד. |
