(RaBa”KH). Alon Bachuth

Commentary to the the Book of Lamentations. The work is divided into four parts: The first, a straightforward commentary; the second, a commentary that attempts to turn all the lamentations to consolations; the third, explanations of several passages from Midrash Lamentations Rabbah; and the fourth, commentary to the Fifteen Songs of Ascent (Psalms 120-134) that correspond to the fifteen Biblical generations from Abraham the Patriach to King Solomon The Author, Benjamin Cohen Vitale of Reggio (1651-1730) was the foremost Italian kabbalist of his day and universally held in the greatest reverence. He received the mantle of authority from the Kabbalist Moses Zacuto (RaMa”Z)