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Maharam Halawa. First Edition, Jerusalem, 1873. - Chiddushei Rabbi Moshe Halavah (Maharam Halavah) on Tractate Pesachim. Jerusalem, 1873. Printed by Rabbi Yoel Moshe Salomon. The final page features an illustration of the Hurva Synagogue. Signed by Rabbi Chaim Press, a melamed in Nachalat Shivah and publisher of the Jerusalem periodical Sha'arei Zion during the 1870s. Stams o the Beit Menachem Synagogue of the Chabad Kollel in Jerusalem. Rabbi Moshe Halavah, one of the great medieval Rishonim, lived in the era of the Ran and the Rivash. This work was published here for the first time from a manuscript that had been preserved by a grandson of the Chida in Jerusalem. Sh. HaLevi, Sifrei Yerushalayim, no. 189. [1], 67, [1] leaves. 23 cm.