Lekach Tov [commentary to the Torah]

AUCTION 25 | Monday, October 25th, 2004 at 1:00

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Lot 44

NAJARA, MOSES

Lekach Tov [commentary to the Torah]

FIRST EDITION. A sound, wide-margined copy ff. 149, (1). Opening and closing few leaves dampstained, f.147 with tear at corner, clean tear and repair on f.3. later calf, spine gilt, stain on lower cover. Folio Vinograd, Const. 250; Yaari, Const. 183; not in Adams

Constantinople: Solomon & Joseph Ya’avetz 1575

Est: $6,000 - $8,000

PRICE REALIZED $7,000

The author lived in Damascus and Safed and was one of the disciples of Isaac Luria (the Ari Zal). His son, Israel Najara, was the distinguished poet, author of Y-ah Ribon. The Kabbalistic work Shaar HaKelalim published in the Etz Chaim by R. Chaim Vital is attributed to R. Moshe Najara in many manuscripts.The present work is an important Halachic and Aggadic commentary to the Pentateuch and especially the precepts, together with Kabbalistic inferences