(“Tosfos Yom-Tov.”) Ma’adanei Yom Tov VeDivrei Chamudoth [novellae to the Ro’sh].

HELLER, YOM TOV LIPMANN.

Tzvi Hirsch ben Chaim & Son

Fürth

1745

Third edition (first with this title). With bookplate of Yeshivath Chachmei Lublin.

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 are considered as kings (“Man Malki Rabanan.”) 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 so upon release he judiciously altered the title to the more innocuous “Ma’adanei Yom Tov.” Of note, the title states that this work was “previously called Ma’adanei Melech”.