Discovery: Handwritten Notes from the Chafetz Chaim on his Sefer, Likkutei Halachot, Still Unrevised!

Discovery: Handwritten Notes from the Chafetz Chaim on his Sefer, Likkutei Halachot, Still Unrevised!

* Likkutei Halachot on tractates from Kodshim: Tamid, Temurah, Kritut and Bechorot, by the rabbi of the entire Jewish people, the kohen gadol, Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaKohen of Radin. Pietrkov, 1909. First edition.

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* Likkutei Halachot on Tractates Pesachim and Chagigah, by the rabbi of the entire Jewish people, the kohen gadol, Rabbi Yisrael Meir HaKohen of Radin. Pietrkov, 1909. First edition.

This copy contains two revisions in the author's penmanship. The glosses match the Chafetz Chaim's penmanship in the notes he made on his sefarim. These two glosses touch the root of the matter and completely change the relevant halachah. Despite the Chafetz Chaim noting the two printing errors, these errors have not been corrected in a printed edition. Since the Chafetz Chaim did not print another edition in his lifetime, in the elucidated edition printed many years later (Israel, 2005), these two errors have also not yet been corrected (refer to the attached photocopy).

The first gloss is in Tractate Temurah, Chap. I, page 5a. In the leaves of the book, it reads, "It helps that they are already [כבר] domesticated animals" and the Chafetz Chaim corrected in his penmanship, "It helps that they are like two ['כב] domesticated animals" - which completely changes the meaning.

The second gloss is also in Tractate Temurah, Chap. VI, page 15b. In the leaves of the book, it reads, "Rabi Eliezer reasoned this, and this makes it permissible" and the Chafetz Chaim changed one word, so that instead of writing permissible ["מותר"], he writes that it is prohibited ["אסור"] which obviously completely reverses the halachah.

The Mishnah Berurah series of sefarim, which discusses daily halachah, was printed in many editions by the Chafetz Chaim in his lifetime, and he corrected the errors that occurred in earlier editions. However, his Sefer Likkutei Halachot which discuss Land-of-Israel dependent halachahs, which in his day were mashiach-era halachahs [the Chafetz Chaim authored this sefer from the desire to strengthen the study of Seder Kodshim and other halachahs that would be performed after Mashiach's arrival] so no additional editions of the work were printed and the corrections that appear here were never inserted.

Kodshim: 32, 3-35; 3-38; 3-24 pp. 24.5 cm.

Moed: 82 p, 24.5 cm.

Fine condition. Aging stains. Brittle paper. Paper glued to the top of the title page. Original binding. Sticker on the spine.