Ohr Same’ach.
AUCTION 80 |
Thursday, March 28th,
2019 at 1:00 PM
The Valmadonna Trust Library: Further Selections from the Historic Collection. * Hebrew Printing in America. * Graphic & Ceremonial Art
Lot 62
MEIR SIMCHAH HAKOHEN OF DVINSK.
Ohr Same’ach.
Warsaw - Riga: 1902-27
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $1,000
R. Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (1843-1926) was one of the foremost Rabbinic leaders of the pre-War generation. Known as the “Ohr Same’ach” after this, his magnum opus, a penetrating study on the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides. According to the note on the verso of the title of the final volume, it was published posthumously from the estate of the author by R. Menachem Mendel Zak of Riga. It remains a well-studied classic.