Olat Tamid – elucidation on the Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim, with the Shulchan Aruch text. Two parts: Olat Tamid and Olat Shabbat , by Rabbi Shmuel bar Yosef of Krakow. Amsterdam, 1681.
Well-known book on Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim. When it was published, it became the most important and most common book on halachah and it was extensively cited by later authorities. The Magen Avraham also quotes this work a lot, but often critically, as Rabbi Chaim Nathan Dembitzer writes in Klilat Yofi (Part I pp. 61-62): “And although when it was first published, Olat Tamid was widely accepted and very popular … When the wonderful book Magen Avraham was published with many critiques of it, many times stating “And not as in the Olat Tamid ” – since then, it has been made redundant and never again reprinted, with the Magen Avraham accepted in its place, and the halachah is determined according to the Magen Avraham all over the Jewish world to this day.”
This book is adorned with approbations by Va’ad Arba HaAratzot, Rabbi Ya’akov Sasportas, Rabbi David Meldola – rabbi of the Ashkenazic community in Amsterdam, Rabbi Yitzchak Abuhav, rabbi of the Portuguese community, and others.
Antique owner’s signature on the title page, hard to decipher. The flyleaf bears an owners’ stamp in Hebrew and in English: “Yehudah David Bernstein.” Additional owner’s stamp in the margins of the title page: “Margaliot’s Library, Lvov.”
Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for brief biographies of the book’s owners, Rabbi Yehudah David Bernstein and Rabbi Reuven Margaliot .
[2], 260 (should be” 60); 10, [6], 65-114; 50 leaf, 31 cm.
Fine condition. Aging stains. Reinforcements in the title page. Partially detached title page.