Joseph ben Judah Loeb Porges  


Author :
Joseph ben Judah Loeb Porges (Amsterdam 1709)
with introduction by the Editor Joseph Samson ben Isaac of Chinon

in possession of the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York City (Ref. BM503.7 S27 1709/1884)

1884 book of Joseph Loeb Porges

Sefer HaKritot — Warsaw, 1884

Translation of the title page

Main title

Book of Excisions (Sefer HaKritot)

Author line

By our master, Rabbi Shimshon of Chinon, of blessed memory — one of our rabbis, the French Tosafists, of blessed memory — in which he expounds the principles and topics (sugyot) of the Talmud.

Second work bound with it

Together with the book Tehilat HaChochmah (“The Beginning of Wisdom”).

Descriptive paragraph

Comprising many principles that the earlier author omitted, with explanations drawn from Rashi, Tosafot, the Rambam (Maimonides) and other authorities, together with cross-references to the relevant biblical and Talmudic passages.

Distribution note

Also available for purchase: the book Orach Meishor by the aforementioned Gaon.

Hebrew imprint

Warsaw — In the printing house of R. Yitzchak Goldman, may his light shine — in the year “Birkat Tov” (chronogram), according to the minor reckoning.

Russian imprint

Sefer HaKerisos. Warsaw. In the Printing House of I. Goldman, Muranowska Street No. 16. 1884.