Mitsaref le-Kesef, R. Naftali Herz, Frankfort am Main 1898
מצרף לכסף - Only Edition
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- Lot Number 47299
- Title (English) Mitsaref le-Kesef
- Title (Hebrew) מצרף לכסף
- Note Only Edition
- Author R. Naftali Herz
- City Frankfort am Main
- Publisher Elimielekh Slabitski
- Publication Date 1898
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- Item # 1360499
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Physical Description
Only edition. [3], 44 pp., octavo, 212:140 mm., wide margins, usual age staining. A good copy not bound.
Detail Description
R. Jacob ben Asher (1270?–1340) was a major halakhic authority. He was the son of R. Asher b. Jehiel (the Rosh), under whom he studied. In 1303 he accompanied his father from Germany to Toledo, where he lived in great poverty, shunning rabbinical office and devoting all his time to study. In his learning, he avoided prolixity and casuistry. His enduring fame rests upon his major work, the Arba'ah Turim, as a result of which, he is commonly referred to as "the Ba'al ha-Turim." Perceiving that "reasoning had become faulty, controversy had increased, opinions had multiplied, so that there is no halakhic ruling which is free from differences of opinion," he decided to compile a work to embrace all halakhot and customs incumbent upon the individual and the community. The excellence of the work soon led to its dissemination throughout the Diaspora. Its authority has been recognized and accepted by all Jewish scholars throughout the generations, many of whom (including R. Joseph Caro, R. Moses Isserles, R. Isaac Aboab, R. Jacob ibn Habib, R. Joel Sirkes, and R. Hayyim Benveniste) wrote commentaries on it, and made prMcis of it. When R. Caro wrote his major work, the Beit Yosef (with the Turim ed. of Wilmersdorf, 1720–27), he decided to "base it upon the Turim... because it contains most of the views of the posekim." He also wrote a comprehensive commentary on the Pentateuch (Zolkiew, 1806), containing the best expositions of the peshat ("literal meaning") by earlier Bible commentators, such as Saadiah Gaon, Rashi, R. Abraham ibn Ezra, David Kimhi, and others, in particular abstracting "the straightforward explanations" from the commentary of Nahmanides and disregarding the kabbalistic ones, since "my soul has not entered its secret" (cf. Gen. 49:6). Mitsaref le-Kesef is based on this work.
Hebrew Description
באור על בעל הטורים. בו מצרפים ומבארים... הענינים הבלתי מובנים... בספר בעל הטורים. חובר בשנת תקע"ט מהרב... ר' נפתלי הירץ זצ"ל (בק' לעכאוויטש, בטרם נסעו לארץ הקדושה)... מגה ומובא אל בית הדפוס ע"י מרדכי גרשון אלטער בלא"א... ר' יוסף שלום ז"ל: נין ונכד להרב המחבר...
References
Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000152731; BE mem 3354;