Tzava Rav, R. Zevi Hirsch Levin, Piotrkow 1907 
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- Lot Number 48112
- Title (English) Tzava Rav
- Title (Hebrew) צבא רב
- Note Only Edition
- Author R. Zevi Hirsch ben Aryeh Loeb Levin
- City Piotrkow
- Publisher דפוס נתן נטע קראנענבערג וחנוך פאלמאן
- Publication Date 1907
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- Item # 1433044
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Physical Description
Only edition, quarto, [1], 38, 138 ff. 285:185 mm., light age staining, wide margins. A very good copy bound in later boards, rubbed.
Detail Description
Only edition of this commentary on all six sedarim of Mishnayot by R. Zevi Hirsch ben Aryeh Loeb Levin together with a section on the author’s distinguished family history by R. Zevi Ezekiel Michalsohn. The title-page informs that it is novella on all six Sidrei Mishnan and notes the author’s distinguished family. There are approbations from R. Joshua Heshel Ashkenazi, R. Isaac Alkhanon, R. Solomon Sofer, R. Jqacob Schorr, R. Zevi Polonsk, Ezekiel and R. Sussman. These are followed by the family history and then the detailed commentary on the Mishnayot.
R. Zevi Hirsch ben Aryeh Loeb Levin, (Hirsch Loebel; Hart Lyon; 1721–1800), was born in Rzeszow, Galicia. In addition to talmudic scholarship he had a knowledge of Hebrew grammar, Jewish history, philosophy, physics, and geometry. While still young, he took part in the Emden -Eybeschuetz controversy, siding with R. Jacob Emden, his maternal uncle. In 1758 he was appointed rabbi of the Great and Hambro synagogues, London (where he was known as Hart Lyon), holding the post for seven years. When in 1764 the leaders of the London community prevented him from publishing a defense of the sheḥitah in London in reply to the attack of R. Jacob Kimḥi, and because of dissatisfaction with the state of talmudic studies, he relinquished his position and went to Halberstadt (Germany), where he was appointed rabbi and rosh yeshivah. In 1770 he was appointed rabbi of Mannheim and in 1773 became rabbi of Berlin. R. Levin was a friend of Moses Mendelssohn , even writing an approbation for his German translation of the Bible. When the Prussian government requested Levin to write in German an account of Jewish commercial and matrimonial law, Levin asked Mendelssohn to compose it under his supervision. It was published in Berlin (1778) and entitled Ritualgesetze der Juden. His friendship with Mendelssohn was impaired when R. Levin attempted to prevent N.H. Wessely from publishing his Divrei Shalom ve-Emet (Berlin, 1782) and even endeavored to have him expelled from Berlin. When Mendelssohn defended Wessely, R. Levin sent in his resignation; however, he did not act on it and remained in Berlin until his death. Levin supported and defended his son, R. Saul Berlin , in the disputes in which he was involved, especially with regard to the forged response Besamim Rosh (Berlin, 1793). R. Levin's commentary on Avot was published together with that of R. Jacob Emden (Berlin, 1834). He also wrote occasional poems, entitled "Naḥalat Ẓevi," which were published in Ha-Maggid (no. 14, 1870). One of his poems appears at the beginning of his brother Saul's Binyan Ari'el (Amsterdam, 1778). He was father of R. Solomon Hirschel , subsequently chief rabbi in London.
Hebrew Description
דף נה,ב-נו,א: ההגהות מהרב... ר’ דוב בעריש אשכנזי... אבד"ק לובלין (שהעתיק את החידושים לסדר קדשים).
דף נו,ב-סז,ב: ליקוטים.
References
Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000143136; Be zaddi 9