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Lot #    5999
Auction End Date    11/18/2003 10:22:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Perush Massekhet Kallah Rabbati
Title (Hebrew)    פירוש מסכת כלה רבתי
Author    R. Abraham ben Nathan ha-Yarhi/ R. Baruch Toledano
City    Tiberias [Jerusalem]
Publication Date    1906
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. 28, 51 pp., octavo, 215:140 mm., usual age staining. A good copy bound in modern boards.
          
Paragraph 1    Due to Turkish opposition to the printing of Hebrew books in Jerusalem, the title proclaims Tiberias as the place of press.
          
Detailed
Description		    Commentary on Massekhet Kallah Rabbati by R. Abraham ben Nathan ha-Yarhi (c. 1155–1215). This tractate is one of the minor tractates appended to the end of the fourth order, Nezikin, in the printed texts of the Babylonian Talmud. Ha-Yarhi’s commentary, on the first chapter of the tractate – all that is known to exist - is based on a manuscript found in Meknes, Morocco, in 1725. It has corrections and references from R. Baruch Toledano, who was responsible for bringing the book to press. The volume begins with an introduction by R. Toledano, in square letters, followed by the text in rabbinic type. The text is accompanied, at the bottom of the page, by R. Toledano’s annotations. Tiberias imprints are very rare.

Ha-Yarhi, a Talmudic scholar from Provence, is best known for his Sefer ha-Manhig on laws and customs. He was born in Avignon, Provence, studied under R. Abraham ben David of Posquieres (Ravad), R. Isaac ben Abba Mari, and several of the Ba’alei Tosafot. Ha-Yarhi left home at an early age, seemingly to attend the distinguished yeshivot in France, particularly that of R. Isaac ben Samuel of Dampierre (RI, R. Isaac ha-Zaken). During this time he experienced considerable deprivation and hardship. Ha-Yarhi, whose itinerary also included Germany, eventually reached Toledo, where he eventually settled and became a member of that city’s rabbinical court.
          
Paragraph 2    [שהו"ל רנ"ק [ר' נתן קורוניל] בקובץ "חמשה קונטריסים" וויען תרכ"ד, ונדפסה גם בש"ס ווילנא החדש] לרבינו אברהם ב"ר נתן הירחי ז"ל ... י"ל פ"א מכ"י שנכתב בעיר מכנאס ... ש' תפ"ה עם תיקונים ציונים ומ"מ, ועוד הגהות וביאורים ... ודברים אחדים בראשו מאתי ברוך טולידאנו ...

ועיין: ספר אלמרשד אלכאפי, מהד' הרב ברוך טולידאנו, תל- אביב תשכ"א, עמ' יז, שהמהדור כותב: "הספר נדפס בירושלים, אבל בגלל פקודה טורקית על בתי הדפוס בירושלים נכתב בשער שנדפס בטבריא, שלא היה בה אז בית דפוס".

          
Reference
Description		    EJ; CD-EPI 0106871
        
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Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
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Israel:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Talmud
  
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First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica