(SeMa”K). Amudei Golah [abridgment of Moses of Coucy’s Sepher Mitzvath Gadol]. FIRST EDITION With glosses by Joshua Zeitlish of Shklov, “Hagahoth Chadashoth”

ISAAC BEN JOSEPH OF CORBEIL

Israel Jaffe

Kopyst

1820

Divided into seven daily parts. Printed on blue paper. Russian censor’s stamp from 1836. Text in square letters; commentary in Rashi letters

Vinograd, Kopyst 94; Ch. Liiberman, Ohel Rachel, Vol. II, p. 551

The book represents a sort of co-operation between the once opposed camps of Chasidim and Mithnagdim. The printer, Israel Jaffe, was a noted chasid, much attached to Rabbi Dov Baer Shneuri of Lubavitch. The editor and commentator, Rabbi Joshua Zeitlish of Shklov, founder of the Zeitlin family, was considered one of the greatest Lithuanian Mithnagdic ge’onim (Talmudic geniuses) of the day. According to legend, R. Joshua Zeitlish was one of three Lithuanian luminaries Rabbi Shneur Zalman, founder of Chabad Chasidism, visited upon his release from St. Petersburg prison, in order to cement peaceful relations between the two warring factions. (The other two Lithuanian luminaries were R. Moshe Chefetz of Tchaves and R. Joel of Amtzislav.) See H.M. Heilman, Beit Rebbe (Berdichev, 1900), ff. 38-39. On ff. 28-r.-39v. there is a lengthy responsum of R. Joshua Zeitlish concerning a matter of divorce (get)