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Renowned halakhic compendium covering a persons birth until death by R. Jeroham ben Meshullam of Provence (Rabbenu Jeroham) with an extensive commentary entitled Shenot Hayyim, here printed for the first time, by R. Reuben Hayyim Klain. Shenot Hayyim is a comprehensive commentary with pilpulim, demonstrating great erudition and expertise to explain all the matters brought from the Talmud and poskim, both rishonim and aharonim. There are approbations from R. Joseph Saul ha-Levi Nathansohn, R. Hayyim Haberstam, and R. Menahem ben Meir. Next are the introductions of Rabbenu Jeroham and of R. Klain followed by the contents and the text, which is comprised of Toledot Adam ve-Havvah in the center in square letters and about it R. Klain’s extensive and thorough commentary in rabbinic letters.
R. Jeroham ben Meshullam of Provence (Rabbenu Jeroham, c. 1290B1350). Jeroham was born in Provence, but with the expulsion of the Jews from France in 1306 wandered until settling in Toledo. He learned briefly by R. Asher ben Jehiel (Rosh) and for a longer period by R. Abraham ben Moses Ismail, a student of R. Solomon ben Abraham Adret (Rashba). Jeroham wrote two works, Sefer Mesharim in 1334, and, in 1340, Toledot Adam ve-Havvah. The former deals with civil law, primarily monetary issues, divided into thirty two paths (netivot). In the introduction to Toledot Adam ve-Havvah Jeroham writes that friends, seeing the benefits of Sefer Mesharim, pressed and urged him to prepare a similar work on issur ve-heter (dietary laws). He accommodated them, writing Toledot Adam ve-Havvah, remarking that God and Israel know that he did not do this for the honor nor to be considered a scholar, for he merely transcribed the words of the sages that preceded him. Toledot Adam ve-Havvah is comprised of twenty eight paths, in two parts, according to the periods of a persons life, from birth to death. Adam, the first part, treats the precepts from a persons birth until marriage, encompassing birth, milah, benedictions, prayer, learning Torah, holidays, vows, kashrut, and contemporary customs, all matters a person should know prior to wedding. Havvah, the second part, deals with the period from marriage until death, covering marital laws, such as betrothal, weddings, divorces, levirate marriage, niddah, and mitzvot applicable to women. Here too Jeroham brings the opinions of earlier decisors, particularly Piskei ha-Rosh, and records the customs of Jewry in France, Spain, and Provence. |
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... עם פירוש שנות חיים ... [מאת] גאון אחד שבזמנינו (מו"ה ראובן חיים [קליין] אב"ד דגליל דאווידקאף במדינת הגר) ולא רצה לחתום שמו על השער ... הובא לבית הדפוס על יד ... מוה' יעקב משולם ניק ... בשנת ש'ל'ו'ם' ט'ו'ב'ה' ו'ב'ר'כ'ה'
שני הנתיבים הראשונים בלבד. הסכמות: ר' יוסף שאול הלוי נאטהנזאהן, לבוב, ה נשא תרכ"ט;
ר' חיים הלברשטאם, צאנז, ב חקת תרכ"ט;
ר' מנחם ב"ר מאיר א"ש, אונגוואר, יא מנחם אב תרכ"ט. |
