Sefer Shaarei Dura, halachic rulings on the laws of Kashrut, by Rabbi Yitzchak HaLevi of Dura (Düren), with the Mevo She’arim commentary, by Rabbi Natan Shapiro (Maharnash).
Lublin: Kalonymus son of Mordechai Jaffe, [1574]. First edition of the Mevo She’arim commentary.
Illustrated title page. Printer’s device illustrating the Temple on f. 3b.
This is the fifth edition of this work (first printed in Krakow, 1534). Since each edition of Shaarei Dura was printed based on a different manuscript, all the editions published in the 16th century are in effect first editions. This is also the first edition of Mevo She’arim by R. Natan Shapiro. (see: Rabbi David Daviltzki, Mavo LeSha’arei Dura of his edition, p. 17 and onwards).
The printing year according to Yitzhak Rivkind, *Dikdukei Sefarim* – Jubilee Book in Honor of Alexander Marx, Hebrew Section, New York 1950, p. 422, no. 26. See there regarding changes in the colophon. See also: Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book, Vol. II, p. 635.
110 Leaves. 29.7 cm.
Overall Fair condition, heavy water stains, later blue cloth binding water damaged.
Sefer Shaarei Dura, composed in the 13th century, is one of the most important works on the laws of Kashrut, and is quoted extensively by both the Beit Yosef and the Rama. Until the printing of the Shulchan Aruch, Shaarei Dura was the primary Ashkenazic work on the laws of Kashrut. The extensive commentary Mavo Shearim includes the customs of Poland and Russia. For more details on the importance of this commentary, see the comprehensive monograph by Eliezer Katzman in Yeshurun, Vol. 13, pp. 617-700; and Vol. 14, pp. 935-964.
The editor of this edition, David Darshan of Cracow, (born c.1527), author of Shir Ha’Ma’aloth Le’David (Cracow, 1571) and Kethav Hithatzluth Le’Darshanim (Lublin, 1574), was one of the most prominent disciples of Moses Isserles (the ReM”A), Solomon Luria (the MaHaRSHa”L), Isaac b. Bezalel, the brother of the MaHaRa”L of Prague, and others. Prof. Saul Lieberman has identified David Darshan as the author of the Perush Katzar to the Cracow, 1609 edition of the Jerusalem Talmud, citing his name in the commentary to Tractate Nazir. See Lieberman, HaYerushalmi KiPeshuto (1935), introduction. For a full biography and translation of his works, see H. R. Perelmuter, Shir Ha’Ma’aloth Le’David (1984)
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