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Three volumes of Mishnayot, with the commentary of the Tiferet Yisrael: Tractates Nashim, Kodashim and Taharot. [Warsaw], 1876. Many stamps of R. Yehuda Leib Gordin, in Hebrew and Russian. In the margins are hundreds of glosses in R. Gordin's handwriting, especially in Tractates Nashim and Taharot, where the glosses are long and learned enough to be considered a separate composition. Tractate Kodashim also contains dozens of glosses. The glosses are mainly concerned with the commentary of the Tiferet Yisrael. R. Gordin also quotes many other Acharonim (later Torah scholars), including his own contemporaries, the Netziv in his Responsa Ha'emek Davar, and the Chafetz Chaim in his Mishna Berura. In many places R. Gordin references his own novellae which he wrote elsewhere: "In my sefer Divrei Yehuda", "In my sefer Teshuvot Yehuda", "In my glosses on the Gilayon", "In my novellae", with the page and section number of the novellae. According to these glosses, his novellae comprised thousands of pages (!). For example, in Tractate Sotah 132b he writes, "See the notebook of my novellae,section 1206, page 1510, line 22; and in section 1206, page 1513…"; in Tractate Kiddushin 180a he writes, "See my notebook of novellae, 1143 and 1293, and in my Shabbat Hagadol speeches, 1891 (year), pages 44 and 1317...". Rabbi Gordin also includes Torah thoughts from his contemporaries and friends. For example, at the end of Tractate Nashim, "All this was told to me by my friend, R. Avraham Rabonsky, rabbi of Dubrovna" (Dubrovno) [R. Avraham Rabinsky, Otzar Harabbonim 802, was born in 1848. From 1884 he served as rabbi in Dubrovno, near Mogilev, where he served for over 40 years]. In Tractate Keilim (15a) R. Gordin mentions, "See what I wrote to R. David Asher in Pokroi" [Rabbi David Asher Tchechnovsky, Otzar Harabbanim 5096. Born in 1872, he was rabbi in Pokroi (Pakruojis) from 1905, and passed away on Rosh Hashana, 1937]. In Tractate Parah (146a) he writes to look at what he wrote "in my letter to R. M. G." (seemingly the third letter that he wrote to R. Mordechai Gimpel Yaffe). The well-known scholar R. Yehuda Leib Gordin (1854-1925) was one of the greatest Lithuanian scholars of his time. He was born in Razitza (Recyca, Vitebsk district), and was known from a young age as a genius. As he grew, he became known for his sharpness and diligence, and by his bar-mitzvah he was proficient in Tractates Nashim and Nezikin by heart. From then he studied with R. Moshe Danyszewski, Rabbi of Świr and Slabodka. In 1877 he was appointed rabbi of Michaliszki. From 1886-1897 he served as rabbi in Augustów (Suwałki voivodeship), from where he remained in contact with R. Yitzchak Elchanan Spector, who assisted him and praised his greatness in Torah. Upon the advice of the Chafetz Chaim he accepted the post of rabbi in Ostrow (Lomza district) in 1897. In 1905 he became rabbi in Smorgon, and in 1910 he became rabbi in the large city of Lomza. In 1922 he travelled to the United States, where he was appointed Chief Rabbi of Chicago. He authored "Divrei Yehuda", "Tshuvot Yehuda" and "Diglei Yehuda". In addition, he published works in Russian regarding the Talmud and Chassidut. These works attracted great interest among the Russian intelligentsia. Leo Tolstoy requested that R. Gordin write a composition on Jewish Talmudic ethics in Russian. (See Yeshurun, III, Elul 5757 [1997], pp. 649-678). 3 volumes. 22.5 cm. Brittle paper. Good to fair condition. Wear and staining. Old fabric non-original bindings.