Derush Pesach Gadol [Passover sermon].

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Rare & Excellent Hebrew Printed Books: From the Library of Arthur A. Marx

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Lot 136

EMDEN, YA’AKOV.

Derush Pesach Gadol [Passover sermon].

<<FIRST EDITION.>> ff. 18. Lightly foxed. Modern calf-backed boards. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Altona 108.

Altona: (self-published) 1775

Est: $4,000 - $5,000

The discourse here pivots on the discussion in Talmud Bavli, Pesachim f. 66a, concerning the permissibility of offering the Paschal lamb on the Sabbath, a law which confounded the B’nei Bathyra and awaited Hillel’s arrival from Babylonia to be resolved.