Meshech Chochmah - First Edition with Glosses by Rabbi Bengis

Meshech Chochmah - First Edition with Glosses by Rabbi Bengis

Meshech Chochmah - elucidations, explanations, ideas, derashahs, and insights on the Torah by the renowned gaon Rabbi Meir Simchah HaKohen of Dvinsk, author of Ohr Samayach. Riga, 1927. Rare and sought-after first edition.

In parashat Bekukotai [leaf 123] the author wrote terrible things about German Jewry, anticipating from afar: "The Jew will completely forget from where he was hewn and consider himself a fresh citizen. He will abandon his religious studies and learn languages not his own ... he will think Berlin is Jerusalem ... then a stormy wind will come and uproot him from his people, placing him among a foreign nation from afar who has not learned his language...".

Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis's stamp and signature appear on the flyleaf. There are approximately ten lengthy glosses in his hand along the leaves of the sefer. Scholarly glosses where he deliberates what the author wrote, sometimes even disagreeing with him, and once even finding a contradiction in his words from two different places.

Refer to the Hebrew catalog text for a brief biography of the author, Rabbi Meir Simchah HaKohen and of Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis.

The fact that Rabbi Zelig Reuven Bengis studied and toiled over this sefer, made comments and even found a contradiction in its words demonstrates the importance of this sefer.

This work was printed in dozens of editions - this one is the first.

Stefansky, Sifrei Yessod 30.

434 pp, 26 cm.

Very fine condition except for the detached flyleaf and binding.