Physical Description:

First edition. Quarto, 180:135 mm., not complete lacking some tractates, usual light age and damp staining, trimmed margins, occasionaly touching text, wanting initial 9 ff. and several other ff, loose in later boards, rubbed and split.

The following pages are present:

ברכות ט-יא, יד-יז; שבת א-ס,  פסחים א-מ; עירובין א-מד; סוכה א-ג, ה-כג; ביצה א, ו-יב; בבא קמא א-כז; מציעא א-לד; בתרא א-סט; סנהדרין א-לט; מכות א-י; כתובות א-לג; גיטין א-כח; קדושין א-לד; נדה א-יו.

Detailed Description:   

Important glosses and annotations on the text of the Talmud by R. Solomon ben Jehiel Luria (Maharshal, c. 1510-64). Maharshal’s emendations, now appended to editions of the Talmud, are based on the second Bomberg Talmud. Many of Marshal’s emendations, have been incorporated into the text of the Talmud, so that the development of our Talmud owes a great deal to Hokhmat Shelomo. The text of the volume, in square letters in two columns, generally follows the order of the Talmud. Among the exceptions are tractate Eruvin, which, is at the end of the book.

The Maharshal was descended from a distinguished family, tracing his lineage to Rashi. His teachers were his father R. Jehiel and his maternal grandfather, R. Isaac Klober of Posen. Luria served as rabbi and head of the yeshiva in Ostrog, leaving after twenty years for Brisk and subsequently becoming a rosh yeshivah in the yeshivah of Shalom Shachna. In 1567, Maharshal founded his own yeshivah. His students include R. Mordecai Jaffe (Levush), Joshua Falk (Derishah u-Perishah), and Hayyim ben Bezalel. Maharshal was known for his intellectual independence.

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