Levush Atereth Zahav Gedolah [commentary on Tur Yoreh De’ah]. Bound with: Levush Ir Shushan [commentary on Tur Choshen Mishpat]

JAFFE, MORDECHAI.

Moses Katz

Prague

1624

Two parts (of four) bound in one volume. Two titles each within historiated architectural borders.

Vinograd, Prague 314 and 315.

Mordechai Jaffe (c. 1535-1612), a native of Prague, studied in his youth in Poland under the greatest scholars of the day, R. Solomon Luria (Maharsha”l) and R. Moses Isserles (Ram”a). In subsequent years, he would sojourn in Italy and once again in Poland before finally returning to his native Prague in 1592, at which time he succeeded the famed R. Judah Löw (Mahara”l) as Av Beth Din. In most of Europe, the “Levush” was studied as a supplement to the Shulchan Aruch and Mappah. In Prague, however, it was studied as the most fundamental, authoritative text of the halacha and remains to this day one of its mainstays - especially of the Aschkenazic tradition.