(“Tosfos Yom-Tov.”) Ma’adanei Yom Tov V’Lechem Chamudoth [novellae to the Ro’sh - Rabbeinu Asher ben Yechiel].

HELLER, YOM TOV LIPMANN.

Tzvi Hirsch Ben Chaim

Fürth

1745

Second complete edition, first edition with amended title (see below). With an enthusiastic approbation by R. Jonathan Eybeschuetz. Previous owner’s stamps including Ben-Zion, son of Jacob Ettlinger.

Vinograd, Fürth 185.

The author originally entitled the present commentary Ma’adanei Melech (“Royal Delicacies”), based upon Jacob’s blessing of the tribe of Asher (Genesis XLIX:20) - the dual meaning referring both to the necessity of bread and to the delicacies of a king. Similarly, the dual purpose of the work itself, was to provide legal decisions of Halacha of relevance to all, along with intricate pilpulistic discourses for the pleasure of the scholar - who is considered as a king. However, the author’s detractors deviously misconstrued the meaning of the title as an insult to the reigning monarch and a portent of revolution. Indeed R. Heller was imprisoned and in this second edition the publishers judiciously altered the title to the more innocuous “Ma’adanei Yom Tov.” However, they republished the original introduction which still refers to the work as Ma’adanei Melech.