The History of the Rema's "Other" Sefer

00:21 We have discussed in the previous lecture about Rav Yosef Karo, the Beit Yosef, that wrote a commentary on the Tur. And then according to this work, he edited the Shulchan Aruch. He first printed the Beit Yosef, the Pirush on Tur, in the year of Shin Yud, 1550. Fourteen years later, in Shin Chof Daled, 1564, he has published the first print of the Shulchan Aruch in Venice. In the same period in Poland was the Gadol HaDor, the spirit- the spiritual leader, Rama, Rab Moshe Isserles. He went in his footsteps, in the footsteps of the Beit Yosef, and he also wrote a commentary on the Turim. He built his hibur on the Beit Yosef, where he would quote large pieces of the Beit Yosef and then add additions according to Seforim, Hiburim, Poskim that lived in Poland, in Ashkenaz, in Europe. The Minhogim of Ashkenaz, while the Beit Yosef is more involved with the Sephardic minhogim, the Rama is more involved with the Ashkenazic minhogim. And then according to this hibur of the commentary of, on Turim, which he called, which was called Darchei Moshe of Rab Moshe Isserles, he built on that and he wrote also a hibur on Shulchan Aruch, Hagahos on the Shulchan Aruch, where he adds all those halachas and minhogim that he quoted from other Poskim, Ashkenazic Poskim that lived in Europe. The Shulchan Aruch with this Hagahos of the Rama, of Rab Moshe Isserles, was published right away several years after the Shulchan Aruch in the year of Krakow in Poland,

03:13 in the year of Shin Lamed, 1570. But his commentary on the Tur, the Darchei Moshe, was not published then. It was published many years later, in about more than a hundred years later, in the year of Tov Nun Alef, 1691. But those printers that printed the Tur with the Beit Yosef also wanted to add the comments of the Darchei Moshe. That was published first about 11 years later in Berlin, in the year of Tov Nun Beis, 1690, Tov Samech Beis, in 1702. They had a problem. They couldn't print the whole Darchei Moshe on the Tur, while the Darchei Moshe is quoting so much of the Beit Yosef. So why should they print that parts twice, once in the Beit Yosef and once in the Darchei Moshe? So they have omitted all these quotations from the Beit Yosef, and they wrote only the additions of the Darchei Moshe on the Tur and Beit Yosef. So that was published much later in the year of Tov Samech Beis, and since then, all prints of the Turim has the commentary of Beit Yosef and the additions of the Darchei Moshe. But till then, those that wanted to have to learn the Darchei Moshe, they copied, or they hired a scribe to copy the whole Darchei Moshe in manuscript. One of the copies we have here in the library that was written in the year of Tov, 1640, Tov Alef, 1641. Not only one, we have three volumes. Two of them are here in the library, and one of

06:20 them, the third one, is still in Moscow. The government of Russia still did not agree to return us the collection of our babes' sforim and manuscripts. In the time of the Ramon, he was together with his cousin of a relative, Absheleme Lurie, the Maharshal, the two largest geanim in Poland. Spiritual sages and poskim of that generation in Poland and Europe. Both of them wrote commentaries on the Torah. About the darkim mesha that the Ramon, Ramesh and Israelish wrote, we already discussed. By the same time, the Maharshal, he wrote so many sforim, and one of them was Hagores on the Torah. This hibble wasn't printed. The other commentaries on the Torah in the later generation, the Prisha and the Bach quoted they had a copy of the manuscript of his Hagores, and they copied many of his Hagores in their commentary. But the entire sefer of Hagores of the Maharshal, Absheleme Lurie, on Torah was never published. It is only the last 10, 20 years that some of the editions of the Torah, they add this Hagores of the Maharshal on the Torah. So in that ksav yad of Tov Alf, 1641, they copied in the same volume, we have the whole Ramon darkim mesha commentary on Torah, and the whole Hagores of Maharshal on the Torah copied in the second part of the same volume.