Fundamental Sefer: Minchat Chinuch - Three Parts. Sought-After First Edition

Fundamental Sefer: Minchat Chinuch - Three Parts. Sought-After First Edition

Sefer Minchat Chinuch - elucidation of Sefer HaChinuch - one of the most well-known fundamental scholarly works of all time, by the gaon Rabbi Yosef Baba"d, rabbi of Tarnopol. Three parts bound together with separate title pages. First edition, in the author's lifetime. Lemberg, 1869. Without the additions printed at the end of the sefer that are not part of the body of the Minchat Chinuch.

"Authored by one of the expert geonim of our times. Sacred and pure, in his deep humility, he wrote anonymously, may Hashem protect him ..."

Rare, sought-after edition printed by the author in his lifetime. Due to his great humility, the author left out his name from the sefer, but this did not prevent its tremendous distribution and renown. It became one of the most popular and most printed sefarim, and was subsequently printed in dozens of editions, and many elucidations were written on it. The author's name was only included in the second edition, printed in Lemberg 1869, approximately 15 years posthumously.

Minchat Chinuch is not only a commentary on Sefer HaChinuch, but it is primarily a scholarly expansion of the topics deliberated therein with references to their sources. The sefer was printed many times.

This scholarly composition, Minchat Chinuch, was accepted in the entire Diaspora as a fundamental halachic work, and many lectures by rashei yeshivah discuss its insights, which are treated like those of the Rishonim. However, not many know that the author of the sefer, Rabbi Yosef Baba"d, was a Chassidic gaon. He was a brother-in-law and study partner of the leading Admo"r of Galicia, the author of Divrei Chaim of Sanz. In his second marriage, he was a son-in-law of the Admo"r Rabbi David of Zablutov, son of Rabbi Menachem Mendel, founder of the Kossov dynasty.

Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of the author, Rabbi Yosef Baba"d.

Stefansky, Sifrei Yessod 217.

Owner's stamps: R' Meir Shalom Kahana Rassein.

[2], 116 leaf; [1], 148 leaf; [2], 105 leaf, 36 cm. Incomplete at the end of the book. Lacking: 'Kometz Minchah, ' author's omissions, and 'Minchat Ani' by the book's arranger, Rabbi Reuven Cohen Rapoport.

Very fine condition except for the first two leaves that had white margins added to them.