Shitah Mekubbezet, R. Bezalel Ashkenazi, Lvov 1812
שטה מקובצת ביצה - The copy of R. Abraham Samuel Benjain Wolf Sofer
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- Lot Number 45477
- Title (English) Shitah Mekubbezet
- Title (Hebrew) שטה מקובצת ביצה
- Note The copy of R. Abraham Samuel Benjain Wolf Sofer
- Author R. Bezalel Ashkenazi
- City Lvov
- Publisher Salman Rapeport
- Publication Date 1812
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Physical Description
The copy of R. Abraham Samuel Benjain Wolf Sofer (Schreiber; 1815–1871), signed in acrostics of f.1 & 2. Additional inscription by his son R. Isaac Loeb Sofer (1848-1907) rabbi of Drogobych. R. Abraham was the oldest son of R. Moses Sofer, succeeded his father on his death in 1839 as rabbi and rosh yeshivah of Pressburg. In his will, R. Moses Sofer appointed his eldest son to succeed him as rosh yeshivah. Shortly before his death he indicated to the community his desire that R. Abraham be appointed his successor in the rabbinate during his own lifetime. Although his son was only 24 at the time, R. Moses Sofer's request was granted. Thenceforth the Pressburg community became the heritage of the Sofer family dynasty. During the 32 years he occupied this post, he continued his father's policies in all matters. He was one of the active organizers of Hungarian Orthodoxy for the Jewish Congress which took place in 1869, and subsequently carried on his activity in this sphere. Though not at first an extremist, he later joined their ranks and finally gave the religious approval of the Sofer dynasty to the schism in Hungarian Jewry. He published responsa and expositions of the Torah under the title Ketav Sofer (1873–1938).
Detail Description
R. Ashkenazi occupied himself a great deal with copying and editing old manuscripts, even hiring scribes to help him. He copied the novellae of the geonim and rishonim on the Babylonian Talmud, and these served as the basis for his classic Asefat Zekenim, better known as the Shitah Mekubbezet. Through this collection, much of the commentaries and responsa of R. Gershom b. Judah, R. Hananel, R. Joseph ibn Migash, R. Meir ha-Levi Abulafia, and others, was preserved. The book in its different parts has been republished many times, and it serves as a supplement to the tosafot, and the other classical rishonim.
Much of the Shitah Mekubbezet is still in manuscript. Part of it has been lost, but is occasionally referred to in books by other authors. All of the available material on some tractates has been published; but only selections of others. The following commentaries under the title Shitah Mekubbezet have been published: Berakhot, the collection in Berakhah Meshulleshet (Warsaw, 1863), incorrectly attributed to R. Ashkenazi, and is most probably by R. Yom Tov b. Abraham Ishbili; Bezah, the collection attributed to R. Ashkenazi at the end of Nahalah li-Yhoshu'a (Constantinople, 1731), of R. Joshua Soncino may be by a disciple of R. Nissim Gerondi; Ketubbot (Constantinople, 1738); it is doubtful whether Nedarim (Berlin, 1860) and Nazir (Leghorn, 1774) are by R. Ashkenazi; Sotah (Leghorn, 1800) is contained in Yagel Ya'akov of R. Jacob Faitusi; Bava Kamma (Venice, 1762); Bava Mezi'a' (Amsterdam, 1721); Bava Batra (Leghorn, 1774) up to page 133. The remainder was published under the title of Shi'urei Shitah Mekubbezet in the Yad Ramah (Salonika, 1790) of R. Meir ha-Levi Abulafia; Sanhedrin, sections in Sha'ar ha-Melekh (Salonika, 1771) of R. Isaac Nunes Belmonte and in Hamra ve-Hayyei (Leghorn, 1802) of R. Hayyim Benveniste; Zevahim Bekhorot, Menahot, and most of Seder Kedoshim in the Romm Talmud edition (first published in Mizbah Kapparah by R. Jacob Faitusi (Leghorn, 1810) and other books). The Shitah to the smaller tractates of Seder Kedoshim is very much abbreviated.
R. Ashkenazi published glosses on the text of the Mishnah and the commentaries on the Mishnah of R. Samson of Sens and of Maimonides. His glosses on R. Samson's commentary on Pe'ah and Demai were published by J. L. Maimon (Sinai Jubilee Volume (1958), 102–25), as were his glosses to Maimonides' commentary on the Mishnah of Zevahim and Menahot in the same author's Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon (1960), 251–90. Ashkenazi also annotated the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds, his glosses on Yoma being published by Aaron Jellinek in Kunteres ha-Mazkir (1877), 20–26. Derekh Tamim, glosses on the works of Isaac Alfasi and R. Nissim Girondi were published in Tummat Yesharim (Venice, 1622) of Benjamin Motal. His glosses on Books 9–13 of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah are in the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary (Ms. 825) in New York. R. Ashkenazi compiled Kelalei ha-Talmud, general rules of talmudic methodology excerpted from the geonim and rishonim (published by A. Marx in Festschrift D. Hoffmann (1914), Hebrew section 179–217). He also wrote responsa (Venice, 1595) and composed sermons and poems.
Hebrew Description
קן צפור
נטיעה של שמחה
שיטה מקובצת. ביצה
עבודת הקודש
דינים השייכים ליום טוב
יש טפסים בהם נספחו בסוף הספר ד, יח דף.
ד דף, עם הכותרת "קן צפור" (בראשי העמודים גם "נטיעה של שמחה"): ביאור משנה במסכת קינים, [מאת ר' שמחה ב"ר יהושע האס מזאלוזיץ]. הקטע הראשון (עם הכותרת "העתק מס' לב שמחה") נדפס כבר בספרו "לב שמחה", זאלקווא תקי"ז, פרשת נח. ההמשך נדפס קודם לכן בספרו "נטיעה של שמחה",
זאלקווא תקכ"ג.
יח דף, עם הכותרת "דינים השייכים ליום טוב": הלכות מתוך "ספר עבודת הקודש שחיבר...הרשב"א... ובאשר שדיני עירובי תחומין שייכים גם לי"ט בכן דפסתי פה השער החמישי מספר הנ"ל, שבו מבואר דיני עירובי תחומין, ואחר כך בית מועד הנחלק לחמשה שערים".
ההוצאה הבאה של שטה מקובצת על מסכת ביצה, סדילקאב תקצ"ו, נדפסה על פי טופס שבו הנספחים הנ"ל.
Reference
BE shin 785; EJ; CD-NLI 0301120