Bidspirit auction | JAFFE, MORDECHAI. Levush Habutz Ve’argaman

JAFFE, MORDECHAI. Levush Habutz Ve’argaman [commentary on Even Ha’ezer]. ff. 126. * Bound With:  Levush Ir Shushan [commentary on Choshen Mishpat]. ff. 224. FIRST EDITION. Two works bound in one volume. Stained in places, final leaf browned with corners taped. Modern boards. Folio. Vinograd, Cracow 204 and 214 (who notes that NLI possesses the title page only); Stefansky, Sifrei Yesod 159. Cracow, Yitzchak Prostitz, 1598 and 1599. Mordechai Jaffe (c. 1535-1612), a native of Prague, studied in his youth in Poland under the greatest scholars of the day, R. Shlomo Luria (Maharsha’l) and R. Moshe Isserles (Ram’a). In subsequent years, he would sojourn in Italy and once again in Poland, before finally returning to his native Prague in 1592, at which time he succeeded the famed R. Yehudah Löw (Mahara’l) as Av Beth Din. The Levush remains to this day one of the mainstays of Halachah - especially according to Aschkenazi tradition.