Discovery: Unknown Glosses on the Yerushalmi by the Author of 'Beit Meir' - Not Printed

Discovery: Unknown Glosses on the Yerushalmi by the Author of 'Beit Meir' - Not Printed

Talmud Yerushalmi, Seder Nashim. First edition of the commentaries Pnei Moshe and Mareh HaPanim (Rash"i- and Tosafot-type commentaries on the Yerushalmi) - among the most important and popular commentaries on the Yerushalmi. Both are by Rabbi Moshe b"r Yehoshua Margaliot - one of the rabbinic leaders of Lithuania - and there are those who say that he was one the Gr"a's teachers. Amsterdam, 1755.

Many lengthy glosses appear along the book's leaves [over 160 lines of glosses] handwritten by the gaon Rabbi Meir Posner, av beit din of Zuidland, known as the author of Beit Meir - one of the major commentators on the Shulchan Aruch.

In addition to those in his sefer, Beit Meir, the Beit Meir's Torah novellae also appear in sefarim by rabbinic leaders of his generation who sent their questions to him. These include the gaon Rabbi Akiva Eiger, who was much younger than him, and referred to him as "The great and true gaon, scion of the sacred, teacher of his people ... [more honorifics]." The questioners also include the author of Chemdat Shlomo and the author of Chayyei Adam.

These handwritten glosses do not reach the point of comprising an entire sefer, this apparently being the reason that they have never been printed. This is therefore an important halachic discovery - over one hundred and sixty lines of unknown Torah novellae handwritten by one of the greatest rabbis and poskim across the generations of Jewish history.

Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of the gaon Rabbi Meir Posner.

Stefansky, Sifrei Yessod 116.

[2], 40, 27, 39, 19, 29, 5, 23, [2] leaf. 36 cm.

Fine condition. Aging stains. Minimal creases. Simple binding. Slight tear in the corner of the title page.