Chidushei Maharam Schiff – Signatures and Gloss of Rabbi Yisrael Lifshitz author of Tiferet Yisrael

Chidushei Halachot, on Tractates Beitzah, Bava Metzia, Ktubot, Chullin and Gittin, by Rabbi Meir [Maharam] Schiff. Brin, [1798]. On title page, a number of signatures of Yisrael Lifshitz, more inscriptions and a long gloss in his handwriting at the top of Leaf 84/2 [partially cutoff]. Rabbi Yisrael Lifshitz (1782-1861), son of Rabbi Gedalya Lifshitz, author of Regel Yeshara and grandson of Rabbi Yisrael Lifshitz Rabbi of Kliva. A Torah genius, a leading scholar of Ashkenazi Jewry, he served in the rabbinate for over 50 years, in the communities of Dessau, Danzig and others. He is renowned for his large work Tiferet Yisrael on the six Sidrei Mishna. [1], 90 leaves + 12 leaves of Part 2. 35 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Restored tears on first leaves and tears to several more leaves. Part 2 on Tractates Bava Kama, Bava Batra, Sanhedrin and Shabbat, do not appear in the Bibliography Institute CD listings, but in the copy of Otzar HaChochma a copy of 20 leaves appears after Part 1 (this copy is missing in the middle of Tractate Shabbat).