Meshech Chochmah – elucidations, explanations, ideas, sermons and novellae on the Torah by the renowned gaon Rabbi Meir Simchah HaKohen of Dvinsk, author of Ohr Samayach .
In the portion Bechukotai [leaf 123], the author wrote terrible things about the Jews of Germany, something of a far-off-anticipation … “The Jew in general will forget his origin, and think of himself as a fresh citizen, who will leave the study of his own religion, to study languages not his own … he will think Berlin is Jerusalem … and a stormy wind will come, uproot him by the trunk, and place him in a foreign nation whose language he has not learned …”
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of the author, Rabbi Meir Simchah HaKohen .
434 pp, 26 cm. Self-dedication.
Fine-very fine condition: Slight tear in leaf 112. Original semi-leather binding.