R. Hayyim ben Jacob Hirschensohn a member of a family of rabbis, who were among the first in the revival of settlement in Ereẓ Israel in the 19th century. R. Hirschensohn was born in Safed. In 1864 he went with his father to Jerusalem. In addition to studying Torah, he applied himself to secular studies, and as a result he too was persecuted by zealots. He also worked for Zionism; he supported Eliezer Ben-Yehuda in his effort to revive spoken Hebrew and was one of the founders of the Safah Berurah ("Plain Language") society in Jerusalem. From 1885 to 1889 he edited and published a monthly for Jewish scholarship entitled Ha-Misderonah. In 1892/93 he published in Jerusalem – together with his wife Eve and his brother Isaac – a Yiddish paper, Beit Ya'akov, as a supplement to the Ha-Ẓevi of Ben-Yehuda. In 1904 he went to the U.S., where he was appointed rabbi of the four communities of Hoboken, New Jersey, and died there. Ḥayyim wrote many books on Jewish subjects, including Ateret Ḥakhamim (1874), on the relationship between the views of scientists and those of the talmudic aggadists; Yamim mi-Kedem (1908), on biblical chronology; Malki ba-Kodesh (6 parts, 1919–28), on the laws which should govern a Jewish state according to the Torah. He was the father of Tamar, wife of David de Sola Pool, and Tehilla Lichtenstein head of the Jewish Science movement.

הספירה השנייה, עם שער מיוחד: לקוטי התלמוד ... מאמרי התלמודים המכילים את כללי מוסדות תורה שבע"פ ... עם פי' רש"י על הבבלי, והוספת נופך משלי ... וביאור על הירושלמי ... ממני חיים הירשענזאהן ... עמ' ק-קב: הערות ר' עזריאל הילדסהיימער ותשובת המחבר. עמ' קב בסופו: "עוד כמה הערות יבאו אי"ה בכרך שני". כרך ב לא נדפס. יש טפסים חסרים עמ' [9-8] בראש הספר הכוללים "מכתבי תעודה". הסכמות: ר' עזריאל הילדיסהיימר, ברלין, כז סיון תרמ"ח; ר' יוסף דיסמה דינער, אמסטערדאם, א חיי שרה תרמ"ט.