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Responsa of Maharik. Cremona, 1557 Autographed Hagahos of Rabbi Aharon Shmuel Kaidenover,

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Responsa of Maharik. Cremona, 1557

Autographed Hagahos of Rabbi Aharon Shmuel Kaidenover, Author of Birkas

Hazevach and Tiferes Shmuel, on Shu”t Maharik.

Handwritten hagahos by Harav Aharon Shmuel Kaidenover on Shu”t Maharik by Rabbi Yosef Colon.

The leaves of this sefer contain 5 handwritten annotations, cut on the margins. Two are autographed: “[A]haron Shmuel (leaf 94b)” and “Aharon Sh[muel]” (leaf 111a). The contents of the annotation in margin 94b is printed in his work of responsa and Shu”t Emunas Yisrael (Frankfurt, 1683) Ch. 50:4-5.

The holy Rabbi Aharon Shmuel Kaidenover (1614-1676) was one of the leading Achronim and father of the Kav Hayashar. He wrote several fundamental sifrei kodesh, among them Birkas Hazevach on Seder Kadshim; Tiferes Shmuel on the Rosh; and Shu”t Emunas Shmuel. He served as the Rav of some of the most illustrious Jewish communities in Europe, among them Głogów, Reisha, Brisk, Fürth and Cracow.

During the Chmielnicki massacres of 1648, he fled to Vilna where he was appointed a dayan in the Beis Din of the Chelkas Mechokek together with the Shach. The Yaabetz writes that he was said to know the Tur and Beis Yosef by heart. “And aside from his wisdom in Shas and Poskim, and his great breadth as evident from his works, he was also knowledgeable in kabbalah, and the gilgulim of souls was revealed to him” (Shem Hagedolim by the Chid”a). His approbation to the Shach’s commentary on Choshen Mishpat appears in this Catalog (see lot 69).

Cremona, 1557. Second edition. [12], 173 leaves. Page size: 28 cm. Minor damage on several pages. New leather binding.

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The Nachalas Shivah writes regarding his autograph “Aharon Shmuel”:

“The gaon Moreinu Harav Shmuel Kaidenover told me that his name at his circumcision was ‘Aharon, ’ but when he fell ill, they added the name Shmuel, and they called him Shmuel, and he signed his name ‘Aharon Shmuel.’”

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