This book, from my antique books collection, is a rare commentary on Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Deah by Rabbi Moshe Yekusiel Kaufman (circa 1661 – 1722). It is the first edition, printed in the author’s lifetime in Hanau, a city in Hesse, Germany, east of Frankfort am Main.
The book has many haskomos (approbations) from the great Torah leaders of his time.
Rabbi Moshe Yekusiel Kaufman was an erudite scholar, a son-in-law of Rabbi Avrohom Abele Halevi Gombiner ( the author of the book Magen Avrohom). He was born at Krotoschin. He served as Dayan in Kartchin and later Rabbi of the distinguished community of Kutno in Poland. He authored various important halachic seforim (Jewish legal books) including this one, Lechem HaPanim, and Chukei Derech. His books were warmly received and were reprinted numerous times.
Rabbi Kaufman called his work “Lechem Hapanim. This is often translated as “show bread” or bread of display. On the north side of the Temple in Jerusalem, in front of the altar, stood a table, and on that table rested bread, as it says in Shemos (Exodus) 25:30: “And on the table you shall set the lechem panim before Me always”.
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