(MaHaRSH”A). Chidushim Mi’Masecheth Nidah [Halachic and aggadic novellae and on Tractates Nidah and portion of Nedarim]

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Lot 92

EDELS, SAMUEL ELIEZER.

(MaHaRSH”A). Chidushim Mi’Masecheth Nidah [Halachic and aggadic novellae and on Tractates Nidah and portion of Nedarim]

FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural arch. ff. (36). Signature of previous owner on final leaf (Judah ben Yekuthiel). Browned. Unbound. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Prague 113, Mehlman 870

Prague: Abraham ben Moshe 1602

Est: $3,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,250

R. Samuel Edels (1555-1631) was unusually referred to by his mother-in-law's name. A wealthy woman, she supported the scholar and his disciples for a period of twenty years (1585-1605). See EJ, Vol. VI, cols. 363-4. The Maharsh”a’s supercommentary is indispensable to a proper understanding of Tosaphoth, the medieval French commentary to the Talmud. R. Abraham Isaiah Karelitz (author of Chazon Ish) was known to stress this as did R. Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk (according to family oral testimony)