Be'er Sheva [novellae to Talmudic Tractates Horayoth, Tamid, Kereithoth, Sotah, Sanhedrin and Chullin, with responsa]
AUCTION 51 |
Thursday, June 23rd,
2011 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II
Lot 157
EILENBURG, ISSACHAR BAER
Be'er Sheva [novellae to Talmudic Tractates Horayoth, Tamid, Kereithoth, Sotah, Sanhedrin and Chullin, with responsa]
Venice: Giovanni Caleone 1614
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
PRICE REALIZED $1,500
The author, R. Issachar Baer Eilenburg (c.1570-1623), Rabbi of Gorizia, Italy, studied under R. Judah Löw in the latter’s yeshivah in Prague and later in the Posen yeshivah of Rabbi Mordecai Jaffe (author of Levushim). Along the way, Eilenburg imbibed Kabbalistic teachings from R. Israel Sarug, the likely disciple of R. Isaac Luria. Eilenburg served as rabbi of Austerlitz, Moravia before he was called to serve the rabbinate in Safed which his premature death prevented. See JE, Vol. V, pp. 77-78.
Eilenburg’s most celebrated work is the present Be’er Sheva, to this day a favored commentary to several tractates of the Talmud. Haskamoth (approbations) include Leib Saraval of Venice, Moses Galante of Safed, Judah Löw (Mahara”l) of Prague, Mordechai Jaffe of Posen and Aaron ben Chaim (author Korban Aharon).
A handwritten comment at the end of the introduction of this particular volume states that the author was accepted to the rabbinate in Safed in order to pursue the study of Kabbalah and cleve to R. Chaim of Damesek (R. Chaim Vital)