Miniature volume of the Shulchan Aruch, ChoshenMishpat—first edition with Be’erHaGola—Amsterdam 1666.

Nice copy of a small volume (16cm) of the Shulchan Aruch, with, added for the first time, the Be’erHaGola of Rabbeinu Moshe Ribkash, which was published by Dr. Rabbi Ephraim Boinoand Rabbi Yaakov Castillo, with their own money, in Amsterdam between 1661-1666.

The connection between Rabbi Moshe (a Litvak) and the Dutch printers was able to happen as a result of Rabbi Moshe having spent a significant period of time in Rotterdam when he left Vilna (in Tammuz of 1655) as a result of the Khmelnytskyi pogroms. During his wanderings he reached Amsterdam and Rotterdam, where he stayed at the “Di Los Pintos” yeshiva, where Rabbi Yeshayahu Pardo led. This volume was printed by Yosef Atias in 1666. The colophon notes 1664.

486 pages. The copy before us is complete, no moth damage, but it is without binding, missing the front cover with copper opening inscription. Cover and first pages disconnected, decorations and gilding on the outside of the pages, light stains, generally very good condition.