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

ELIJAH, GAON OF VILNA

Mordechai Rubenstein

Zolkiew

1804

FIRST EDITION. Title within typographical border. Stamp of Eliezer Sirkis of Zgierz

Vinograd Thesaurus, Zolkiew 610; Vinograd Gr”a, 281

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