Two-part work comprised of responsa by R. David Dov ben Aaron Aryeh Judah Jacob Meisels followed by kuntres Imrei Kohen by R. Meir Kohen. The title-page informs that this is the first part of the responsa, on Orah Hayyim, by by R. David Dov Meisels accompanied by Imrei Kohen by R. Meir Kohen. There is an introduction by R. Meir ben Jacob Eliezer ha-Kohen from Warsaw who brought the book to press. The text follows, comprised of sixty varied responsa and then Imrei Kohen comprised of forty-five later responsa under the heading Imrei Kohen.

R. David Dov ben Aaron Aryeh Judah Jacob Meisels (1814–1876), Polish rabbi. Meisels was the son of Aryeh Judah Jacob who served as av bet din of Piotrkow and Kilatow. He was known in his youth as a prodigy (illui). He was appointed av bet din of Dobra at the age of 18 and later served in the same capacity at Nasielsk. From 1851 until his death he was rabbi of Lask. He was regarded as one of the outstanding talmudists of his generation and gained the deep respect of the ḥasidic rabbi of Gur, Isaac Meir, author of the Ḥiddushei ha-Rim. Meisels' important works, published by his sons, are Ahavat David, on the laws of invalid witnesses (1884); Ḥiddushei ha-Radad, novellae on tractate Pesaḥim (1891); She'elot u-Teshuvot ha-Radad, responsa on Oraḥ Ḥayyim and Even ha-Ezer (1903); and Binyan David, on the Book of Lamentations (1913). Of his sons, Jacob, author of the Toledot Ya'akov, succeeded his father as rabbi of Lask; Phineas Elijah served as rabbi of Rakov and Ze’ev Wolf was a distinguished Ḥasid at Tarnow.

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