Pirkei Moshe [Commentary to the Ethics of the Fathers]

Moses ben Baruch Almosnino (c. 1515-c. 1580) was a Salonikan preacher, whose numerous publications demonstrate extensive knowledge of science, philosophy, history, and rhetoric. Almosnino’s halachic responsa appear in the collections of his contemporaries such as Samuel de Medina (MaHaRaSHDa”M), and Jacob di Boton. Besides Hebrew commentaries to the Five Scrolls (Yedei Moshe, 1582), the Pentateuch and prayer book (Tefillah le-Moshe, 1563), Almosnino also authored works in Judeo-Spanish. See EJ, Vol. II, cols. 669-71. The printer of the present work was the grandson of the celebrated Joseph Ya’avetz, known as “He’Chasid Ya’avetz” (the Pious Ya’avetz), author of several works (see Lots 64 and 65)