Brith Mateh Moshe. With an extensive pilpulistic commentary by Moshe b. Isaiah of Wengrow and Vilna.

(HAGADAH).

D. E. Jablonski

Berlin

1701

FIRST EDITION. Unusually, the preface for this Hagadah appears on the title-page.

Yudlov 103; Yaari 67.

The composer of the Brith Mateh Moshe often digresses here to bemoan improper social conduct: Berating those who harangue their spouse - thus creating a cheerless environment for their children, as well as chiding women for maltreating their servants. Throughout, the author reproves those “who cause many of the social ills of (our) time, a result of haughty bearing and slothfulness in regard to personal ethical behavior.” Rabbi Y. Y. Halberstamm, the late Grand Rabbi of Klausenberg was often wont to refer to this Hagadah and saw to it that it was reissued in order that “youth will appreciate the complete Talmudic mastery and acuity of the sages of the 18th century.” (Silberman edition, Brooklyn, 1980).