Sefer Lashon Zahav. Novellae on the Talmud and the weekly Torah readings by Rabbi David Tevele HaKohen Schiff, rabbi of London and England.
Two sections. Offenbach, [1822]. First edition.
Stamp of the famous Gaon Rabbi Meir Leibush Malbim from the years he served as Rabbi of Bucharest.
The wonderful Gaon Rabbi Meir Leibush ben Yechiel Michl Weizer (the Malbim, 1809-1880) was born in Vohlin, one of the last commentators on the Bible and Poskim. He worked in the Russian Empire, Prussia, and Romania. He is most known for his Bible commentary, which shows his wide-ranging scholarship—in his commentaries can be found references to philosophers of the past like Kant, Philo, and more.
The Malbim’s first sefer that made him world-famous and merited an enthusiastic approbation from the Chatam Sofer who writes that his words are "based on cognitive thinking and are close to the Torah’s truth". this sefer that ends with the laws of tzizit, is quoted dozens of times in the Mishna Brura and in other seforim of halachic rulings. The Malbim stopped writing this work in order to write his famous commentary on the Tenach which he saw was needed in that generation
His unrelenting battle against the members of the Enlightenment Movement led to his persecution by them and to his arrest and deportation.
The author Rabbi David Tevele HaKohen Schiff was a disciple of the author of Pnei Yehoshua, the rabbi of Frankfurt. He served as dayan in Frankfurt, and from 1765 served as chief rabbi in London. He was a prominent Torah scholar and rabbi of his generation and was very active in promoting Torah and Torah awareness. He held halachic correspondence with the author of Noda B’Yehuda, and with his colleague Rabbi Natan Maas of Frankfurt who counseled with him in their prolific correspondence. The book was printed soon after the author’s passing, by his nephew, Rabbi Gavriel Adler who included an introduction with the author’s biography. Rabbi Adler also added Kanfei Nesharim with novellae by his relatives, rabbis of the Adler family.
[3], 32, [1], 44 Leaves. 33 cm. Additional title page for the second section.
Overall Great condition, some water stains, title page has a marginal tear, new red leather binding.
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