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Maharam Schiff Corrected Edition Paritzk, 1810 * A deeply analytical commentary on eleven masechtos of Shas, by Rabbi Meir Schiff, known as the Maharam Schiff. Printed beneath the main text on every page is the classic commentary Biur by Rabbi Mordechai of Ardush, Av Beis Din of Paritzk, about whom Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Margulies wrote: ”Before the arrival of the late gaon [Rabbi Mordechai of Ardush], the sefer Maharam Schiff was like a sealed book [it was incomprehensible]” (from his approbation to the Ostroh edition, 1819). Rabbi Mordechai merited that his commentary, the Biur, is printed to this day in all editions of the Talmud Bavli, at the end of the masechtos, alongside the commentary of the Maharam Schiff. A ”Corrected” Copy Rabbi Ardush exerted great effort that the sefer should be clear to those who study it, and he writes in his introduction: ”I employed men for weeks and months to correct all the errors in the text, so that all would appear properly before the reader’s eyes..” Throughout the present sefer, there are more than 10 corrections in various handwritings. In a particularly interesting and rare fashion, affixed onto the text on the final leaves are several printed correction slips! The phenomenon of corrections in the handwriting of authors and publishers on the leaves of sefarim they printed is indeed rare, though not entirely unknown. However, printed errata slips pasted directly into the book are exceedingly rare. Paritzk, 1810. First Edition of the Biur. Vol. I: [3], 59; 94 leaves. Vol. II: [1], 23; 24 leaves. Size: 35.5 cm. Condition: Fair–good, large margin restoration at the lower left corner of the title page (with professional photographic supplement), and repairs to the edges of other leaves. Some holes and ink stains. Old (damaged) binding. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - At the beginning of the sefer are important approbations from the great rabbanim of the generation for the commentary of Rabbi Ardush: His friend Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, Rabbi Meir Krisnapoler of Brod (grandfather of the Rebbe of Belz), Rabbi Avraham Chaim of Zlotchov, Rabbi Yaakov Orenstein of Lvov, and others. The author maintained a longstanding friendship with Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, and decades earlier, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak granted an approbation for the edition of Mikdash Melech printed by Rabbi Mordechai (Zolkiew 1793). Rabbi Mordechai of Ardush was the teacher of the holy Rabbi Yitzchak of Neshchiz in his youth, and the Rebbe of Lublin said of Rabbi Mordechai of Ardush: ”The light of his Torah radiates upon him in all the worlds, in this and the next.” (Encyclopedia of the Sages of Galicia, vol. II, p. 847)