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Mahazit ha-Shekel, R. Samuel ha-Levi Kolin, Hrubieszow 1818

מחצית השקל - Varient copy not in NLI

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  • Lot Number 47018
  • Title (English) Mahazit ha-Shekel
  • Title (Hebrew) מחצית השקל
  • Note Varient copy not in NLI
  • Author R. Samuel ha-Levi Kolin
  • City Hrubieszow
  • Publisher Menachem-Mendel Finkelstein
  • Publication Date 1818
  • Estimated Price - Low 200
  • Estimated Price - High 500

  • Item # 1334665
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Description

Physical Description   

[1], 3-151; [1], 108, [3] ff., folio, 331:210 mm., usual light age and damp staining, wide margins, old hands previous owners. A very good copiy bound in recent cloth over boards, rubbed.

Varient copy not in NLI - this copy includes name of press, date and printer.

 

Detailed Description

Classic halakhic work by R. Samuel b. Natan Nata ha-Levi Kolin (1720–1806), rabbi and posek. Kolin took his name from his birthplace, Kolin, in Bohemia, where he received his talmudic education, and was considered a child prodigy. After his marriage he settled in Boskovice and his material needs were provided by his wife, who managed a wool business, leaving him free for study. Although he never held an official rabbinic appointment, for over 60 years he conducted a yeshivah which attracted many pupils. R. Kolin achieved fame through his comprehensive work, Mahazit ha-Shekel, a commentary on the Shulhan Arukh, Orah Hayyim and Yoreh De'ah. The section on Orah Hayyim (Vienna, 1807–08) is in fact a supercommentary on the Magen Avraham of R. A. A. Gombiner. Its main purpose is to give the actual wording of the sources to which R. Gombiner alludes, or which he abbreviates, and to simplify his rather difficult language. Only portions of the commentary to the Yoreh De'ah, part 1, and on the laws of niddah were published (1858–60). The Mahazit ha-Shekel achieved wide popularity among scholars who depended on it in arriving at halakhic decisions. It was published separately a number of times and in later editions together with the text of the Shulhan Arukh. R. Kolin's sermons (1906) and his commentaries to Bava Batra and Avodah Zarah (1958) were also published under the same title.

Hebrew printing in  Hrubieszow began at the beginning of the 19th century when Menachem-Mendel Finkelstein, Moshe Cukier and Shaul Moshe Goldstein established a Hebrew printing works. Between 1816 and 1826 it produced 34 books, a few of them in Yiddish - including a translation of “Gdolat David VeMalchut Yisrael” by Yosef HaEfrati of Troplowic; and “Sefer Chassidim” by R. Yehuda Chassid.

 

Hebrew Description

 שחיבר ... ר’ שמואל הלוי קעלין... מאיר... דברי המגן אברהם ... חלק א-ב.

בשערי שני החלקים: "נדפס בפאריצק". בחלק א גם שמו של המדפיס בפאריצק, שלמה בן חנינא. אך לפי הקישוטים ורשימת הפועלים (בחלק ב, דף קח) נדפס הספר בהרובשוב. ‬

חלקים מן השערים בצבע אדום.

הפרט תקע"ח בשער חלק ב. בשער חלק א התאריך: "בשנת תק"ל [!]"

 

 

Reference Description   

Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 000324940 (without name of printer and city); EJ; A. Posner and E. Freimann, in: L. Jung (ed.), Guardians of our Heritage (1958).