Lekach Tov [commentary to the Torah]

AUCTION 30 | Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 at 1:00

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Lot 281

NAJARA, MOSES

Lekach Tov [commentary to the Torah]

FIRST EDITION. A sound, wide-margined copy ff. 149, (1). Inscription on title (a wedding gift), opening and closing few leaves marginally stained. Modern calf-backed boards. Folio Vinograd, Const. 250; Yaari, Const. 183; not in Adams

Constantinople: Solomon & Joseph Ya’avetz 1575

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,600

A Halachic and Aggadic commentary to the Pentateuch - especially the precepts, together with Kabbalistic inferences. The author lived in Damascus and Safed and was one of the disciples of Isaac Luria. His son, Israel Najara, was the distinguished poet, author of Y-ah Ribon.