Meshech Chochmah [novellae on the Torah]

MEIR SIMCHAH HAKOHEN OF DVINSK

E. Levin

Riga

1927

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

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."