Bidspirit auction | HELLER, YOM TOV LIPMANN (Tosfos

HELLER, YOM TOV LIPMANN (Tosfos Yom-Tov.)  Ma’amar Bechinath Olam [commentary to Yedaiah Bedarsi’s ethical work]. FIRST EDITION of commentary. Marginalia. ff. 64. Browned, stained in places, few neat paper repairs. Modern boards. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Prague 92. Prague n.p. 1598. Commentary by the Bavarian born R. Yom Tov Lipmann Heller (1579-1654), lovingly known as the ‘Tosfos Yom Tov’ after his major commentary to the Mishnah. In his youth he studied in Prague with both R. Yehudah Loewe (the Mahara’l) and R. Ephraim Luntschytz (the Kli Yakar). At the remarkably young age of 19, he was asked to sit on the Maharal’s Beth Din. In 1627 he was appointed Chief Rabbi of Prague.