This book
was quite unfamiliar to me and I suspect that it was privately published with a
small print run since it bears no information concerning the place and date of
publication, or indeed of a publisher. I have never seen any reference to it in
other commentaries and have never heard it mentioned as a source.
The first
of the two commentaries is the Tiferet Tzion of Rabbi Yitzchak Ze’ev Yadler,
author of the 18-volume Tiferet Tzion commentary on Midrash Rabbah and
the Talmud. It comes with approbations from Rabbis Yisrael Moshe Dushinsky,
Shabtai Shlomo Wigoder and Yitzchak Menachem Weinberg. Rabbi Yadler is the father
of Rabbi Ben Tzion Yadler (1871-1962), a major figure in Jewish resettlement in
Israel both before and after the founding of the state in 1948 and an early activist
on behalf of education for girls.
The second commentary, the Kerem Chemed, is authored by Rabbi Yadler’s grandson, Rabbi Yehudah Rabinowitz. This commentary is shorter and focuses on a selection of mishnayot and baraitot.
If any reader knows anything about this book, can he or she please share it! I’d love to know more about its provenance and about its authors.
