Sefer Pri Megadim, on Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpas, by Rabbi Shmuel ben Rabbi Alexander of Hakberstadt. The Press of Yochanan Christoff Bekman, Frankfurt an der Oder, 1691.
An alphabetically ordered index of the Dinim of the Shulchan Aruch Choshen Mishpas. First and rare edition.
Signed on the title page by the wonderful Mekubal ”Lashem HaAretz Umeloah Hakatan Nathan Neta Mannheim Rabbi of Haguenau & the country”
His Holy handwriting is Extremely Rare! & has never appeared at public auction.
The wonderful Holy Mekubal Rabbi Nathan Neta Manheim Served as rabbi of the Jewish community in Haguenau. He immigrated to the Land of Israel together with Rabbi Yehuda the Chasid in 1700.
In 1707 he left as a Shada”r (emissary) on behalf of the Ashkenazi community and reached Egypt. In 1708 he came to Italy and studied at Rabbi Binyamin HaCohen’s Beit Midrash in Rovigo. In 1709 he printed in Frankfurt am Main the Sefer "Meāorot Natan" by Rabbi Meir Poppers with his and Rabbi Yaakov’s Vilna commentary. Later on studying the Torah in the Beit Midrash founded by Rabbi Asher Lameli Mannheim. He died in 1743.
His famous preface to the Sefer Me’orot Nathan is one of the primary sources on the saga of Rabbi Yehudah Chasid & his Chabura. About Rabbi Yehuda he writes ‘‘Tzadik Yesod Olam full of wisdom Holy Malach Chasid & kadosh Gur Aryeh Yehuda Rabbi Yehuda Chasid”
Overall Good condition. stains, some corners bent or frayed, text block split into two, original binding damaged. 15.8 Cm.
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