Sha’arei Dura [Rabbinic Code]. With commentary Mevo She’arim and comments of the MaHaRSHA”L plus notes by R. Mordechai Jaffe and additional material by R. Moshe Auerbach of Mehzritch.

ISAAC BEN MEIR OF DÜREN.

Eliezer b. Yaakov Rublinker and David b. Moshe

Zaslav (Izyaslav)

1807

With approbation by R. Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. Printed on green tinted paper.

Vinograd, Zaslav 4.

Rare. Only six books were published in Zaslav, a small town in Volhynia (present-day Ukraine). Isaac of Duran (second half of 13th century) was a preeminent German halachic authority. His Sha’arei Dura is codified upon the traditions of both Germany and France and became the basis of halacha for these parts. The extensive commentary Mevo Shearim includes the customs of Poland and Russia. On R. Nathan ben Shimshon Shapiro (the grandfather of his more famous namesake, the author of Megaleh Amukoth) and his commentary Mevo She’arim, see the comprehensive monograph by E. Katzman, Toldoth HaMegaleh Amukoth in: Yeshurun, Vol. 13 pp. 617-700 and Vol. 14 pp. 935-64).