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Lot #    23891
Auction End Date    7/7/2009 10:07:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    She’elot u-Teshuvot Da’at Esh
Title (Hebrew)    שאלות ותשובות דת א'ש
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Uri Shraga Phoebus Halfan
City    Berlin
Publisher    Aaron ben Moses Rofe
Publication Date    1743
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [4], 37, 15 ff. quarto 205:155 mm., nice margins, light age and damp staining, stamps. A good copy bound in contemporary leather boards, rubbed and split.
          
Detailed
Description		    Only edition of these responsa and novellae on the Rambam by R. Uri Shraga Phoebus Halfan (1640-1707). The title page describes She’elot u-Teshuvot Da’at Esh as being the first part of the work and also on the Rambam on Kilayim, written by the author who is from the house of Halfan, whose light shown and was rosh bet din and a great darshan in the city of Prague and afterwards av bet din and rosh mesivta in Bomslau in Moravia. The א"ש part of the title stands for the initials of the author’s name, Uri Shraga. There are approbations from R. Mordcai of Lissa and R. Naphtali Hertz, both in Berlin, R. Meir ben Isaac Eisenstadt, and R. Isaac ben David Gaii. Next are two introductions, one R. Halfan, the other from R. Halfan’s son. The text, in two columns in rabbinic type, is comprised of eighteen responsa. The next part of the book, with separate foliation, is an elucidation of the Rambam on hilkhot Kilayim. There are several attractive tail-pieces and initial words of parts of the book are set in ornamental borders.

The Halfan family lived in Vienna. It later changed its name to Wechsler. Among the members of the family are R. Eliezer ben Uri Shraga Phoebus (d. 1670), who was head of the community and was apparently the last person to be buried before the 1670 expulsion. His son, R. Uri Shraga Phoebus (c. 1640–1707), author of this work, headed a yeshiva in Prague and served as Rabbi of Ungarisch-Brod, Moravia

          
Paragraph 2    חלק ראשון וגם חיבור על הרמב"ם של כלאים שחיבר הרב... אורי שרגא פייבש זצ"ל מבית חלפן והיה... ראש בית דין ומ"ש [ומורה שווה] ודרשן... בק"ק פראג ומשם נתקבל לאב"ד ור"מ בק"ק בומסלא... ואחר כן... לאב"ד ור"מ בק"ק ברודא... במדינות מעהרין... בן... ר' אליעזר מנליש זצ"ל... שבאו לבית הדפוס ע"י בנו... הרב... משה יוסף במדינת פיהם ודיין בק"ק ברודא... בשנת ואתא מרבב'ות ק'דש מימינו א'ש דת' למו

הסכמות: רבני בערלין: ר' מרדכי מליסא ור' נפתלי הירץ ב"ר בנימין זאב, כא אלול תק"ב; ר' מאיר ב"ר יצחק, א"ש [אייזנשטאט], כח סיון תצ"ח; ר' יצחק ב"ר דוד, גאיי, ו [מר]חשוון תצ"ח.

          
Reference
Description		    BE bet 1395; EJ; JE; CD-EPI 0138195
        
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18th Century:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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