Chukot Olam – First Edition. Dedication by the Author, Rabbi Moshe Nechemiah Kohenio

Chukot Olam – First Edition. Dedication by the Author, Rabbi Moshe Nechemiah Kohenio

Sefer Chukot Olam, laws of Kilayim, by the gaon Rabbi Moshe Nechemiah Kohenio, Av Beit Din of Petrovitz and Khasilevich, and Rosh Yeshiva of Etz Chaim. Jerusalem, 5646 [1886]. First edition. A distinguished copy with the author’s dedication.

Before the title page, an additional printed leaf contains a letter of dedication from the author. In this copy, the author personally added in his own handwriting the name of the rabbi who received the book: Rabbi Yosef Rachamim Franco of Hebron.

Rabbi Moshe Nechemiah Kohenio [1817-1887] was born in Belarus. After his marriage, he moved to Vilna, where he immersed himself in the writings of Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin, whom he referred to as "my teacher and master", despite never meeting him.

He served as the rabbi of Petrovitz and later of Khasilevich, where he established a yeshiva. In 5624 [1864], he immigrated to Eretz Israel and settled in Jerusalem. In 5626 [1866], at the request of the great Torah leaders of Jerusalem, led by Rabbi Shmuel Salant, he was appointed as Rosh Yeshiva of Etz Chaim, a position he held for 25 years until his passing. Hundreds of Jerusalem’s greatest scholars were counted among his students.

S. Halevi, Sifrei Yerushalayim 551.

[1], 40, 4, 9-20 leaves. 19 cm.

Very fine condition.