Magen Giborim [commentary to Shulchan Aruch - Orach Chaim (chaps. 1-56)]

ETTINGER, MORDECHAI ZEV BEN YITZCHAK AARON HALEVI.

Lemberg

1831

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in cursive Aschkenazic hand on paper.

A variant text from the published edition. Mordechai Ettinger (1804-63) composed this work together with his brother-in-law, Yoseph Shaul Halevi Nathanson (1808-75). It appeared in two parts: “Eleph HaMagen” and “Shiltei HaGiborim,” under the general title “Magen Giborim.” It includes both new laws that can be extracted from the existing text as well as the pipulistic perspective of existing laws. The work was first printed in Lemberg 1834. This manuscript is an earlier version of the published work, with many additions that do not appear in the Lemberg edition. It may be that the authors reneged on their original opinion.