Meshech Chochmah [novellae on the Torah]

AUCTION 51 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II

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Lot 252

MEIR SIMCHAH HAKOHEN OF DVINSK

Meshech Chochmah [novellae on the Torah]

FIRST EDITION. The copy of R. Bezalel Zolti, (Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, author of Mishnath Yaavetz), with his signature on flyleaf and tooled initials on spine pp. 434. Later calf. 4to

Riga: E. Levin 1927

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $600

R. Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (1843-1926) was one of the foremost Rabbinic leaders of the pre-War generation. He was known as the "Ohr Same'ach" after his halachic magnum opus, a penetrating study on the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides. His Meshech Chochmah was published posthumously by R. Menachem Mendel Zak and has since been republished many times with notes and a super-commentary by R. Judah Copperman. See p. 245 for the eerie prediction: "There will come a time when the Jewish nation will think that Berlin is (their) Jerusalem, (at which point) a raging storm will destroy them."