Lekach Tov [commentary to the Torah]

AUCTION 34 | Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 at 1:00

Exemplary Hebrew Books: The Library of Joseph Gradenwitz, Esq.

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Lot 129

NAJARA, MOSES.

Lekach Tov [commentary to the Torah]

FIRST EDITION. A sound, wide-margined copy ff. 149, (1). Inscription on title excised, first and last page worn, discolored, otherwise a crisp wide-margined copy. Later calf, rubbed. Sm. folio Vinograd, Const. 250; Yaari, Const. 183; not in Adams

Constantinople: Solomon & Joseph Ya’avetz 1575

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,400

A Halachic and Aggadic commentary to the Pentateuch, with special attention to the 613 precepts, together with Kabbalistic inferences. The author lived in Damascus and Safed and was one of the disciples of Isaac Luria. His son, Israel Najara, was a distinguished poet who composed the peerless hymn, Y-ah Ribon.