(MaHaRIVaL). Shailoth U’Teshuvoth MeHaR”I ibn Lev [responsa]. Part III (only).

IBN Lev, Joseph ben David

Solomon and Joseph Ya’avetz

Constantinople

1573

First Edition. Title surrounded by florets. Wide margins. Signed by R. Yechiel Michael Halperin of Berzan on f.2.

Vinograd, Const. 243.

Born in Macedonia and later settling in Salonika and then Constantinople, the author (1505–80) who taught in the in the yeshivah founded by Doña Gracia (Mendes) Nasi was one of the greatest scholars of his time. The Chid”a in his Shem HaGedolim states that three scholars of that generation (all coincidentally named Yoseph) were capable of penning a work of the magnitude of the Beith Yoseph: R. Yoseph Karo, R. Yoseph Taitatzak and R. Yoseph ibn Lev. This multi-volumed responsa was first published in 1561, however for further bibliographic debate on the issue see Mehlman 748; Genuzoth Sepharim p.106, no. 162 and Areshet Vol. V p. 485, no. 162.