Tzedah LaDerech [“Provision for the Way”]

AUCTION 24 | Tuesday, June 29th, 2004 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Art and Holy Land Maps Including Ceremonial Art from the Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg

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Lot 76

Eilenburg, Issachar Baer

Tzedah LaDerech [“Provision for the Way”]

FIRST EDITION. Various owners signatures on title page, including the illustrious R. Meshulam Zalman Cohen of Tziltz (later of Fürth, author of Bigdei Kehunah); an inscription as a wedding gift from Mordechai Libshitz and others ff. 217. Later boards. Folio Vinograd, Prague 309

Prague: Joseph and Judah Bak 1623

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $1,100

An important super-commentary to Rashi, the most famous Jewish Bible exegete. The author, R. Issachar Baer Eilenburg (c.1570-1623) studied under R. Judah Löw in the latter’s yeshivah in Prague. He later studied in Posen in the yeshivah of Rabbi Mordecai Jaffe, author of the Levush. Eilenburg’s most famous work is Be’er Sheva (Venice, 1614), to this day a favorite commentary on several tractates of the Talmud. Eilenburg served as rabbi of Austerlitz, Moravia before he was called to serve the rabbinate in Safed (see f.2b), which his premature death prevented. See JE, Vol. 5, pp. 77-8