Novellae on Mishneh Torah L’HaRamba”m by Rabbi Meir Simchah HaKohen of Dvinsk. First edition. Complete set (four parts in two volumes). Signature of Rabbi Shlomo Heiman of Vilna.
[1]: Sefer HaMada, Ahavah, Zmanim. Riga, 1926. 183 pp.
[2]: Sefer Nashim and Sefer Kedushah. Warsaw, 1902. 247 pp.
[3] Sefer Hafla’ah, Zera’im, Avodah, Korbanot, Taharah. Warsaw, 1910. 252 pp.
[4]: Sefer Nezikin, Kinyan, Mishpatim, Shoftim. Warsaw, 1904. 245 pp.
Before us is the first edition of one of the most important compositions on the Ramba”m authored in recent generations. Complete set printed over 25 years. First the part on Nashim and Kedushah, etc. was printed, then Nezikin, Kinyan, etc, followed by Hafla’ah, Zera’im, etc. and finally Mada, Ahavah and Zmanim. The beginning of each volume bears the owner’s stamp of the gaon Rabbi Shlomo Heiman, lecturer at the Ramailes yeshivah.
The author, the gaon Rabbi Meir Simchah HaKohen [1843-1946], renowned rabbi of Dvinsk, author of Ohr Samayah and Meshach Chochmah , was one of the prominent geonim of Lithuania and one of the rabbinic leaders of Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. All the rabbis of his generation submitted to him and marveled at his wisdom, genius and expertise. He was already renowned as a gaon in his youth. Beginning in 1888, he served as Av Beit Din of Dvinsk alongside the Chassidic rabbi, the gaon R’ Yosef Rosen, “the Rogochover.” He was also famous as a wonder-worker with the power of the Torah.
The gaon Rabbi Shlomo Heiman [1892-1945] was one of the leading rashei yeshivah in Lithuania and then in the United States. He was the rosh yeshivah of Ohel Torah in Baranovich and at Yeshivat Ramailes in Vilna. He then moved to the United States where he served as rosh yeshivah of Torah Vodaath in New York, and as a member of the Council of Torah Sages. His novellae were printed by Rabbi Michel Yehudah Lefkowitz, rosh yeshivah of Ponovezh, who was his disciple at the Ramailes yeshivah, in two volumes entitled Chiddushei Rebbi Shlomo , as well as in Shiurei Rebbe Shlomo , which was printed in Lakewood.
Bound in two identical volumes. 31 cm. Stefansky, Sifrei Yessod 149.
Condition: Fine-very fine. Brittle paper. Tiny tears in the margins of several leaves. Blemish in the last leaf of Sefer Shoftim.