Item 2463. SEFER HA-MIKHTAM `AL MASEKHET PESAHIM, SUKAH U-MO`ED KATAN : U-TESHUVOT BA`AL HA-MIKHTAM U-VENE DORO.

SEFER HA-MIKHTAM `AL MASEKHET PESAHIM, SUKAH U-MO`ED KATAN : U-TESHUVOT BA`AL HA-MIKHTAM U-VENE DORO.

New York : Blau. 1958. Item #20726

(FT) 8vo. 29, 263 pages. In Hebrew. English title: Sefer Hamichtam on the tractates P'sachim, Suckah and Moed katan and responsa. SUBJECT(S) : Responsa – 1040-1600; Talmud. Mo'ed – commentaries. “[Ben Levi was a 13th century] scholar in Provence. Little is known about his life and personality other than that his principal teacher was Samuel b. Solomon Sekili, also a noted Provençal scholar. His few published responsa show his importance as an authority. His decisions influenced French scholars to alter their verdicts in accordance with his opinions. R. David is known through his Ha-Mikhtam, which exerted a strong influence on the development of subsequent halakhic literature. In his work, a commentary covering many tractates of the Talmud, he bases himself on Alfasi. Many of his decisions which were included in the commentary were later incorporated in the Orhot Hayyim of Aaron b. Jacob ha-Kohen of Lunel, who often quoted David, sometimes anonymously. It was through the Orhot Hayyim and the Kol Bo, which is dependent on it, that David's work became known to Joseph Caro and Moses Isserles, who made considerable use of these two books. The Sefer ha-Mikhtam quotes extensively from scholars of France, Provence, and Spain but relies primarily upon Rashi, Alfasi, Maimonides, Abraham b. David, Zerahiah ha-Levi, and Meshullam b. Moses. ” (EJ, 2007) Ex library, otherwise good+ condition. (RAB-30-9).

Price: $100.00