Taharath Ha’kodesh [commentary to Tosephta Seder Taharoth, with text]

AUCTION 38 | Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 1:00

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ELIJAH, GAON OF VILNA

Taharath Ha’kodesh [commentary to Tosephta Seder Taharoth, with text]

FIRST EDITION. Title within typographical border. Stamp of Eliezer Sirkis of Zgierz ff. 2,72. Lightly browned and stained. Later boards, loose. 4to Vinograd Thesaurus, Zolkiew 610; Vinograd Gr”a, 281

Zolkiew: Mordechai Rubenstein 1804

Est: $700 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $700

The Tosephta is a famously formidable text to interpret and is full of erroneous readings. The first edition of this authoriative commentary by the Vilan Gaon, the premier rabbinic authority of the Modern Era "cleared away the stones" and purified the text. The commentary here differs considerably from that published in the Vilna Romm Shas