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Lot #    35324
Auction End Date    7/17/2012 2:19:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Hiddushei Halakhot Maharsha
Title (Hebrew)    חידושי הלכות מהרש'א
Author    R. Samuel Eliezer ben Judah ha-Levi Edels
City    Fuerth
Publisher    איצק צערן דארף בצירוף יתמי חיים מדפיס
Publication Date    1778
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Heavily mispaginated, 2°, 190:160 mm., age staining, title and several ff. with loss, bound in recent boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Novellae to several tractates by R. Samuel Eliezer ben Judah ha-Levi Edels' (Maharsha, 1555-1631) was among the greatest Talmudists. The date and place of his birth are not known with certainty, although 1555 is suggested for the former and Cracow for the latter; his father's name is known only from Maharsha's signature. He learned in Posen, marrying there the daughter of R. Moses Ashkenazi Heilpern (Zikhron Moshe). After his marriage Maharsha lived with his in-laws, during which time both he and his students were supported by his mother-in-law, a wealthy women. Maharsha took her name, Edel, as his family name, Edels, a not uncommon occurrence in such circumstances in eastern Europe at that time. With the death of Edels' mother-in-law in 1605 it became necessary to accept a rabbinic position, which he did, first in Chelm, then in Lublin (1616), succeeding R. Meir ben Gedaliah (Maharam of Lublin), and afterwards in Ostrog (1625), founding in the latter place a yeshivah that attracted many students. Maharsha is best known for his concise, sharp, and profound analysis of the talmudic text, encompassing both Rashi and Tosafot. R. Edels' Hiddushei Halakhot and Hiddushei Aggadot, two distinct works, are now combined and printed with almost every Talmud and considered essential in its study. It has been suggested that Edels had to have had Divine inspiration, for it would have otherwise been impossible for a man to have written such a work.
          
Paragraph 2    ספירת-דפים משובשת. על-פי פיורדא תקי"ז. ראינו טופס שבו נדפסו מחדש, דף על דף, קונטרסים כא-ל (דף עז-קטז). ספירת-הדפים: עט-קז, [1, מסומן: רט], קי-קטו. ושמא נלקחו עשרת הקונטרסים מהוצאה אחרת ?

הסכמות: ר' צבי הירש ב"ר אברהם [יאנוב], פיורדא, יט תמוז תקל"ח; ר' אהרן ב"ר משה [מגזע צבי, מוזסזון], שוואבך, ד תשרי תקל"ט.

          
Reference
Description		    Dubnow, History Russia & Poland, 1 (1916), 129-30; R. Margulies, Toledot Adam (1912); S. A. Horodezky, Le-Korot ha-Rabbanut (1942), 183-90; H. H. BenSasson, Hagut ve-Hanhagah (1959), index; J. M. Toledano, Sarid u-Falit (1945), 74f. ; Vinograd, Furth 303; CD-EPI 0170849
        
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Novellae:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica