Bidspirit auction | HAKOHEN, YOSEPH BEN MORDECHAI GERSHON.

HAKOHEN, YOSEPH BEN MORDECHAI GERSHON. She’erith Yoseph [responsa and Talmud novellae]. FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural arch. This copy with rare additional responsa on Chalitzah bound here following f. 92. ff. 92, (2); 32. Marginal repairs to opening several leaves. Modern boards. 4to. Vinograd, Cracow 134; Mehlman 724. Cracow, Isaac Prostitz, 1590. Mehlman notes that a handful of copies have the two additional unnumbered leaves containing four un-noted responsa. Issued after the work was completed, these four responsa concerning Chalitzah and were not reprinted in later editions. R. Yoseph ben Mordechai Gershon was the brother-in-law of R. Moshe Isserles (the Rem’a) and served as a member of his Beth Din. She’erith Yoseph contains his responsa as well as expositions on the Mordechai to the Orders Nezikin and Mo’ed, Tractate Berachoth, the minor Tractates as well as the Tur-Choshen Mishpat. Most of his responsa deal with financial and commercial matters, areas in which he was an expert. He was approached with rabbinic queries from Moravia, Italy and even Turkey, as well as from his native Poland. He corresponded with R. Meir Katzenellenbogen (see responsum no. 1), and R. Shlomo Luria (see responsum no. 17).