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Lot #    23963
Auction End Date    7/7/2009 10:43:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Bet Levi
Title (Hebrew)    áéú ìåé
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Jacob ha-Levi Kopstein
City    Vilna
Publisher    Judah Leib Metz
Publication Date    1881
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 56 pp. folio, 290:180 mm., age and damp staining, stamps, nice margins. A good copy loose in later boards, split.
          
Detailed
Description		    Only edition of these halakhic novellae on the Rambam and Shulhan Arukh Even ha-Ezer by R. Jacob ben Mordecai Sander ha-Levi Kopstein. Described on the title page as the first part, this is the only section of the work to have been printed. The title page states that Bet Levi is the above mentioned novellae with which the Lord graced Jacob. R. Kopstein provides his lineage, noting that he is related to Levi Epstein dayyan in Lida, and his grandmother was the daughter of R. Israel of Slutzk, son of the gaon R. Joel, and her mother was the daughter of the great rav, R. Shabbetai ben Naphtali Zevi av bet din of Storbin. It continues in this vein, reaching back five generations to the Rema and on his mother’s side to the Tesfot Yom Tov and to the Bet Hillel. He is also descended from R. Elemelekh, av bet din of Lida and Zevi Hirsch, av bet din of Mir. Also noted are his brother-in-law’s family. The title page is dated with a chrongram from the verse “Bless the Lord, O house of Levi” (Psalms 135:20). Bet Levi is mislabeled by the JNUL bibliographic project as Bet ha-Levi although the title page clearly states that it is Bet Levi. There are approbations from R. Mordecai ben Asher Klotzki, R. Joseph ben Raphael Sakovitz, and R. Solomon ben Israel Moses ha-Kohen. There is an introduction from R. Kopstein and a longer preface, followed by the text in two columns in rabbinic letters. First is the novellae on the Rambam, then, on pp. 31-3 novellae on Bava Mezia that R. Kopstein found in a manuscript by R. Elemelekh, av bet din of Lida, and then the novellae on Even ha-Ezer, resolving numerous difficulties left by the gaon the Avenei Meluim.
          
Reference
Description		    BE bet 744; Not in CD-EPI
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Novellae:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica