Mishnat Chachamim – By Rabbi Meshulam Feivish of Kremenets, Father-in-Law of Rabbi Avraham the Malach, and ...

Mishnat Chachamim – By Rabbi Meshulam Feivish of Kremenets, Father-in-Law of Rabbi Avraham the Malach, and Great-Grandfather of Rebbe Yisrael of Ruzhin – First Edition, Ostroh, 1796
Mishnat Chachamim, novellae on the Six Orders of the Mishnah, Parts I-VI, by R. Meshulam Feivish HaLevi Horowitz of Kremenets. Ostroh, [1796]. First edition. Separate title pages for Moed and Nashim. 
Approbations by the Noda BiYehuda, the author of the Haflaa, R. Shaul Rabbi of Amsterdam, R. Betzalel Margolies Rabbi of Ostroh, R. Refael HaKohen Rabbi of Hamburg and other rabbis. Approbations by R. Eliezer Kalir Rabbi of Kolín and R. David Tzvi Auerbach Rabbi of Kremenets (father-in-law of R. Natan of Breslov) appear at the beginning of Seder Nashim.
The author, R. Meshulam Feivish HaLevi Horowitz (born ca. 1710-died in Kislev, between 1786 and 1791) was born in Kremenets (Ternopil Oblast, South Volhynia, Eastern Galicia), and lived there his entire life teaching Torah. From his youth, he was known for his holiness, as R. Eliezer Kalir attests in his approbation, praising him also for his exceptional good name and Torah study. The Noda BiYehuda in his approbation uncharacteristically extolled his virtues, comparing him to the Torah scholars of early generations.
His daughter Gittel wed R. Avraham the Malach, son of the Maggid of Mezeritch who was the great-grandmother of R. Yisrael of Ruzhin. Many stories of this match circulate among the Chassidic dynasties of his descendants. Rebbe Chaim Meir Yechiel of Mogielnica relates that the Maggid of Mezeritch asked that Heaven "reveal to him the greatest Torah scholar of that generation to offer his daughter as a match for his son R. Avraham the Malach, and the response he received indicated R. Feivel of Kremenets" (Toldot HaNiflaot, Warsaw, 1899, entry 123). Recounted in another source: "… Our grandfather, the great Maggid of Mezeritch desired to match the daughter of R. Meshulam Feivish with his son R. Avraham the Malach since she was the daughter of a Torah scholar who studied Torah in holiness and purity and he sent several of his disciples to the rabbi to suggest the match" (Toldot HaMishnat Chachamim, p. 694, at the end of the book Mishnat Chachamim, Machon Beit Avot edition, Brooklyn New York, 2014. See ibid for more stories about this match and about his wondrous meeting with the Maggid of Mezeritch and his veneration of the great holiness of the Maggid and of his son R. Avraham the Malach). A letter appears in the Kherson geniza, written by his mechutan the Maggid of Mezeritch about his book Mishnat Chachamim on Seder Taharot: "To my honored mechutan… I have received your letter… and endorse your composition which has been published because it is very praiseworthy and the Divine Spirit shines from it" (Ginzei Nistarot, Jerusalem 1926, p. 15).
Ownership inscriptions of R. Baruch Hirsh Teitelmon of Warsaw and signature of "Shalom… Zilber of Kutno". 
[3], 33; [1], 15; [1] 22 leaves; 20 leaves; 24 leaves; 46 leaves. 21 cm. Greenish paper. Good condition. Stains and wear. Tears to several leaves, not affecting text. Repaired tear to leaf 6 of Seder Taharot, slightly affecting text. Ownership inscriptions and stamps. New binding.