Livyat Chen and Or Yekarot, on the Torah, pilpul and Talmudic novellae by R. Aryeh Yehudah Leib and his son R. Yosef Binyamin Ze'ev Wolf. Venice: Meir da Zara, [1742]. Second edition (based on Zhovkva, 1732 edition).
Copy of the noted Torah scholar R. Yerucham Fishel Perla, with over ten learned glosses in his handwriting (as well as several glosses handwritten by R. Menachem Mendel Kasher, author of Torah Shelemah). On title page and other places, his ownership stamps (in Polish): "Juda Perla -Warschau".
R. Yehudah Yerucham Fishel Perla of Warsaw (1846-1934), a leading Torah genius of Poland, who immigrated to Jerusalem towards the end of his life. As a merchant, he had no need of a rabbinic position. He is renowned for his three-volume commentary on R. Saadia Gaon's Sefer HaMitzvot, and Hagahot HaGrip printed on the margins of various books.
R. Menachem Mendel Kasher (1895-1983) was a close disciple of leading Torah scholars of his native Warsaw: R. Menachem Ziemba, R. Yerucham Perla and others. Known for his proficiency in all Talmudic and Midrashic literature, he was a prolific author of books and articles, including the dozens of volumes of his Torah Shelemah series, and published many ancient and modern works from manuscript, including the writings of the Rogatchover Gaon and R. Yerucham Perla.
R. Menachem Kasher had an intimate association with R. Yehudah Yerucham Fishel Perla, and purchased his large library after his death, a large portion of which he subsequently sold to the Gesundheit library in Tel Aviv. R. Yerucham Perla's glosses on these books have been printed under the name Hagahot HaGrip, as found in his handwritten glosses to these books, located in R. Kasher's library, the Gesundheit library and the Ponevezh yeshiva library in Bnei Brak. The present copy contains stamps of the library of R. Kasher: "Beit Torah Shelemah – 19 Malachi St., Jerusalem".
[4], 92 leaves. 23 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, wear and tears. Open tear to title page (repaired with paper). New binding.
