The title is taken from Esther 10:3 ("second unto the king"), and is based on a word-play on the name of the Mishneh Torah.
Rabbi Judah Rosanes
Late seventeenth-early eighteenth centuries.
Constantinople, Turkey
This work was not originally intended as an explanatory commentary on the Mishneh Torah. Rather,it consists of original interpretations on assorted Talmudic sopics that were afterwards attached to Maimonides' Code.
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