Bidspirit auction | BERLIN, NOACH CHAIM TZVI. Ma’ayan

BERLIN, NOACH CHAIM TZVI. Ma’ayan HaChochmah [on the 613 precepts in verse and with a commentary]. FIRST EDITION. ff. 4, 142. Browned, signature at end. Modern calf. Lg. 4to. Vinograd, Roedelheim 28. Rödelheim, Heidenheim & Baschwitz, 1804. R. Noah Chaim Tzvi Berlin (1734-1802) was Rabbi of Altona-Hamburg-Wandsbeck and a most prominent Talmudist, who succeeded R. Yonathan Eybeschuetz and R. Raphael Hamburger in serving the rabbinate of this important center of scholarship. The publisher Wolf Heidenheim was one of his most outstanding disciples. See E. Duckesz, Ivah LeMoshav, pp. 74-77 and 139-40.