<<(MaHaRa’L of Prague).>> Gevuroth Hashem [commentary to the Exodus and to the Passover Haggadah].

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<<(MaHaRa’L of Prague).>> Gevuroth Hashem [commentary to the Exodus and to the Passover Haggadah].

<<FIRST EDITION>>. ff. 93, (2), (1). Title laid to size, marginal repairs. Modern blind-tooled calf. Folio. Vinograd, Cracow 77.

Cracow: Isaac Prostitz 1582

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,200

A celebrated work in which the author provides his innovative commentary to the Passover narrative. Fusing mystical teachings with his novel world view, Maharal’s conception of Jewish thought would have an outsize impact on later Jewish thinkers, among them R. Shnuer Zalman of Liadi and R. Abraham Isaac Kook.