Torah Or [Kabbalistic homilies to the Book of Genesis]

According to Habermann and Yudlov, the author intended to publish a second part to this work focusing on the Book of Exodus. The Mehlman copy of the Torah Or, contains the unfinished commentary (until Parshath Bo only) USE FOR ANOTHER TIME: There is discussion among bibliographers whether the chronogram should be deciphered as 1600 or 1605. Perhaps instructive in this regard is the fact that the author mentions on a few occasions "the recently published Tikkunim Chadashim," i.e., Zohar Chadash (see e.g. f.33r.). The first edition of Zohar Chadash is Salonika 1597, the second edition Cracow 1603. (See G. Scholem, Bibliographia Kabbalistica [1933], p. 175.) If there were some way of proving that the Author made use of the second Cracow edition, that would clinch that the book was published ihn 1605 as opposed to 1600