Ohr Same’ach.

AUCTION 68 | Thursday, April 07th, 2016 at 1:00

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Lot 304

MEIR SIMCHAH HAKOHEN OF DVINSK.

Ohr Same’ach.

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Complete in four volumes. pp. 183; 247; 245; 252. Previous owners marks, browned, few marginal repairs. Modern boards. Folio.

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.