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Lot #    23498
Auction End Date    6/9/2009 10:12:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Mirkevet ha-Mishneh, Part II
Title (Hebrew)    מרכבת המשנה, חלק ב
Author    [First Ed.] R. Solomon b. Moses of Chelm
City    Salonica
Publication Date    1782
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [1], 53, 100 ff., 307:203 mm., light age staining, wide margins, old Moroccan hand f. 35f. A very good copy bound in modern half leather and cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Novellae on the Talmud and the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides by R. Solomon b. Moses of Chelm (1717–1781). He was born at Zamosc, son of a wealthy merchant and scholar, under whom he studied. He apparently came under the influence of a circle of talmudists who pursued secular studies, since, according to his own testimony, he acquired an extensive knowledge of algebra, engineering, astronomy, philosophy, grammar, and logic. In his younger years, while still maintained by his father-in-law R. Moses Parnas, he was, according to R. Mordecai of Lissa, "already renowned for his keen intellect, his erudition and his many distinguished qualities and virtues." His first rabbinical position was at Chelm - hence his name. While there, he published in 1751 Mirkevet ha-Mishneh, which immediately established his reputation. He received a call first to serve as rabbi to the community of Zamosc and district in 1767, a post of considerable importance, and then, in 1771, to Lemberg and district. R. Solomon intervened in several disputes, among them the Cleves Get, in which he supported the validity of the divorce document against the rabbis of Frankfort and others who contended that it was invalid. His signature occurs on the Takkanot of the Council of Four Lands for the years 1742, 1751, and 1753. In 1777, after serving in the rabbinate for six years, he resigned, took leave of his family in Zamosc, and set out for Erez Israel. En route he visited Smyrna and Constantinople (in 1779). He reached Tiberias and apparently went to Salonika as an emissary of Erez Israel, where the printing of parts two and three of Mirkevet ha-Mishneh was interrupted by his sudden death. They were completed there a year later with the assistance of a local philanthropist and R. Joseph Zalmona. His Mirkevet ha-Mishneh (part 1, Frankfort on the Oder, 1751; parts 2 and 3, Salonika, 1782 and New York, 1948; part 3, Jerusalem, 1956) contain novellae on the Talmud and the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides, whom he vehemently defended against the criticisms of R. Abraham b. David of PosquiIres. He wrote Sha'arei Ne'imah, on the intonations of Psalms, Proverbs, and Job (Frankfort on the Oder, 1766), republished by Judah Loeb b. Ze'ev as an addendum to his Talmud Leshon Ivri (Vilna, 1816), and a pamphlet entitled Berekhot be-Heshbon on talmudic arithmetic and measures, appended to part 1 of Mirkevet ha-Mishneh. Other unpublished works are Lev Shelomo, consisting of 32 (the numerical value of "Lev") responsa, mentioned by Hida in Shem ha-Gedolim and Hug ha-Arez on the geography of Erez Israel. He wrote a comprehensive halakhic code in ten volumes, based on the Shulhan Arukh, to which he gave the name Asarah Shulhanot ("Ten Tables"). Only two of them were published - Shulhan Azei Shittim, on the laws of Sabbaths and festivals (Berlin, 1762), and Hakham Lev, on the laws of marriage (Jerusalem, 1927).
          
Paragraph 2    חלק ב: (מדע-קדושה). אשר חיבר... ר' שלמה זלה"ה אב"ד ור"מ דק"ק לבוב... הולך וסובב על כל הי"ד החזקה ... אשר לא באו בחלק הא' (ובבואו אלינו... למען דפוס... מרכבת המשנה... נתבקש... בישיבה של מעלה... שאלוניקי, דפוס מרדכי נחמן, בשנת מ'רכב'ת' ה'מ'שנ'ה' אשר לו [תקמ"ב]. [1], נג; ק דף.

מעבר לשער: הקדמת המגיה. מספר, שהמחבר נפטר ביום השבת כא בתמוז תקמ"א "והן עוד היום יום ו בשבת טרם ישכב ובתורתו יהג"ה... כותבה... ומגיהה מדפס ועולה... ובבואו אל הקדש זה ס' קדושה... הלכות שחיטה והאל הקדוש נקדש בכבודו".
          
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Description		    CD-EPI 0170517; EJ; JE
        
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18th Century:    Checked
  
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Novellae:    Checked
  
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First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
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Kind of Judaica