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Ho'il Moshe (Prague, 1612), by MAT, MOSES (c. 1551–c. 1606), The Authors Copy - Ho'il Moshe (Prague, 1612), by MAT, MOSES (c. 1551–c. 1606), This commentary on the Pentateuch and on the Five Scrolls with a supercommentary on the commentary of Rashi on these books, both of which were published after his death by his son Abraham under the title Ho'il Moshe (Prague, 1612) In Hebrew book see the copy https://hebrewbooks.org/24642 The present copy is the copy of the editor Abraham Mat, the son of the author Moshe Mat ben Abraham. The book was probably the first copy to come off the press and was intended to serve as a proof copy for the editor. We can confirm this by several facts. First, the pagination in our copy is different from that of the later copies. These differences relate to 18 pages that are numbered differently from the later print. (מג, מב, מג, ס, סד, עח, פ, פד, פא, פו, פז, פה, קכג, קל, קכז, קכט, א, ה ) Second, 30 handwritten corrections in the text testify to his proofreading work. ( ו, ט, טז, לה, לח, מח, מג, נה, ס, סא, עח, עח, פו, פה, צא, קג, קד, קו, קיח, קכ, קכד, קכד, קלב, קכט, קכט, קלח, קמו, ד, יא) And third, the editor gives a reference to himself through the three notes on the front and back of the title page. One of the most important clues for this first proof print, which makes this print unique, are the pages פא and פה. On these two pages, the second side was not printed. On פא, the front is printed and the back is blank. On page פד, the back is printed and the front is blank Due to these four fundamental differences from the later copies, we can speak of this copy as a unique copy of a very rare early Prague print that was used as a blueprint for the later print MAT, MOSES (c. 1551–c. 1606), Galician rabbi. Mat was born in Przemysl where his father Abraham died a martyr's death. An intimate disciple of Solomon Luria, he taught in Belz. Subsequently he lived in Vladimir-Volynski, where his father-in-law resided and where Mat wrote his Matteh Moshe, a compendium of Jewish ritual law. The book was completed in 1584 and printed in Cracow about six years later, when Mat was already rabbi and head of the yeshivah of Przemysl. Later he lived in Lyuboml. He spent the last years of his life in Opatow. In 1590 Mat was one of the leading rabbis of Poland who signed an ordinance strictly forbidding the ”buying” of rabbinical positions. Mat also wrote: Taryag Mitzvot (Cracow, 1581), a versification of the 613 commandments, which he composed at the age of 22 Minhagei Maharshal (printed in the 1870 Przemysl edition of Jacob Ẓemaḥ's Nagid u-Meẓavveh) which describes the customs and conduct of his teacher, Luria. Some of Mat's responsa are quoted or mentioned by his contemporaries Benjamin *Slonik and Joel *Sirkes. In his Ho'il Moshe he mentions novellae which he wrote on the treatise of Yevamot, but which have not been published. bibliography: J. Kohen-Zedek, Shem u-She'erit (1895), 30–43; Halpern, Pinkas, 15, 62; Raphael, in: Sefer Yovel … S. Federbush (1960), 316–29; also separately: Hanhagat Maharshal (1961); idem, in: Sinai, 63 (1968), 96. [Tovia Preschel]