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Meshech Chochmah – Riga, 1927 – First Edition
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Meshech Chochmah, on the Torah, by R. Meir Simchah Kohen of Dvinsk. Riga: Eli Levin, 1927.
First edition, published by R. Menachem Mendel Dov Ber Zak, Rabbi of Riga, who received the manuscript from the author before the latter passed away in Riga on 4th Elul 1926
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The author,
R. Meir Simchah HaKohen of Dvinsk (1843-1926), an exceptional Torah scholar and tzaddik, was one of the most eminent leaders of Eastern European Jewry before the Holocaust. He served 40 years as Rabbi of Dvinsk (Daugavpils, Latvia), together with R. Yosef Rosen, the Rogatchover Gaon (who served as rabbi of the city's Chassidic community). During his rabbinical tenure in Dvinsk, he began printing his monumental Or Sameach on the Rambam. three volumes of which were published in his lifetime, while the last volume was printed in Riga by R. Menachem Mendel, Rabbi of Riga, who also edited and published R. Meir Simchah’s Meshech Chochmah on the Torah. The book became popular throughout the entire Jewish world and eventually became known as one of the most important commentaries on the Torah. A well-known comment in his Meshech Chochmah on the end of Parashat Bechukotai foretold the impending destruction of European Jewry.
R. Meir Simchah HaKohen of Dvinsk (1843-1926), an exceptional Torah scholar and tzaddik, was one of the most eminent leaders of Eastern European Jewry before the Holocaust. He served 40 years as Rabbi of Dvinsk (Daugavpils, Latvia), together with R. Yosef Rosen, the Rogatchover Gaon (who served as rabbi of the city's Chassidic community). During his rabbinical tenure in Dvinsk, he began printing his monumental Or Sameach on the Rambam. three volumes of which were published in his lifetime, while the last volume was printed in Riga by R. Menachem Mendel, Rabbi of Riga, who also edited and published R. Meir Simchah’s Meshech Chochmah on the Torah. The book became popular throughout the entire Jewish world and eventually became known as one of the most important commentaries on the Torah. A well-known comment in his Meshech Chochmah on the end of Parashat Bechukotai foretold the impending destruction of European Jewry.
434 pages. 25.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Many leaves and gatherings loose and detached. Marginal tears to some leaves. Original binding, worn, with attached non-original spine.