Chochmath Adam [halachic compendium on Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De'ah]. * Bound with, Part Two: Binath Adam.

DANZIG, AVRAHAM.

Vilna

1815

Two parts bound in one. With introduction by R. Chaim Volozhin. A handsome copy.

Vinograd, Vilna 65; Vinograd, Gra 1562.

The introduction states that the notion to arrange the laws according to the order of the Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh De'ah was proposed by R. Ya’akov of Lissa and R. Chaim of Volozhin. On the title of Part Two (Binath Adam), the author writes he will not record the legal decisions of his Mechutan the Vilna Gaon, due to complaints that in his earlier work Chayei Adam (on Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim) he had on occasion disagreed with the Gaon's decisions. In truth, he writes, the Gaon would have "nachath ruach" from the very fact that his decisions were so discussed."For so is the way of our holy Torah: This one constructs and that one deconstructs." For details regarding an alternate text, see Ch. Liberman, Ohel Rachel, Vol. I (1980) pp. 471-72; see also S. Stampfer, Rabbi Hayyim of Volozhin and his Approbations in: Alei Ayin (1977) p.163, no. 10.