Get Pashut, Shulchan Aruch – laws of divorce, with the Get Pashut commentary, by R. Moshe ibn Chaviv. Constantinople, [1719]. First edition.
Copy of R. Yeshaya Pick Berlin. At the center of the title page, his abbreviated, handwritten signature: "Y.B. P." (=Yeshaya Berlin Pick).
Ownership inscription at the top of the title page: "Belongs to the outstanding Torah scholar R. Yeshaya Pick of Berlin", with a German signature.
Brief glosses and corrections, presumably in his handwriting, on pp. 4b; 5b; 101b, 111a; 112a and 141a.
R. Yeshaya Pick Berlin (1725-1799), rabbi of Breslau. An outstanding Torah scholar, exceptionally proficient in all realms of Torah, in the Bible, both Talmuds, Midrash and halachic literature. His close colleague, the Noda BiYehuda, acclaimed R. Yeshaya's extraordinary brilliance and righteousness. For most of his life, he did not serve in a rabbinic position. He earned a living from his partnership in a leather business. Only near the end of his life, in 1793, was he appointed rabbi of Breslau, a position he held until his passing. He composed dozens of works which disclose his tremendous knowledge, but was mostly renowned for his glosses printed in the Talmud editions, from the Dyhernfurth 1800 edition onwards. The Chatam Sofer eulogized him: "A renowned Tzaddik… who did not forsake neither large or small topics, and only studied Torah for the sake of Heaven… whom we had said, under his protection we shall live amongst the nations". Rebbe Yitzchak Eizik of Komarno attested in his book Netiv Mitzvotecha, in the name of his teacher, that if R. Yeshaya Pick had attended the Baal Shem Tov, their combined righteousness would have brought the Redemption to the Jewish people (Netiv Emuna, path 6, 11).
[2], 143 leaves. 30.5 cm. Good condition. Stains. Wear to title page and several other leaves. Minor tears to margins of title page and subsequent leaf, not affecting text. New leather binding.