RaSH”I al Ha’torah [commentary on the Pentateuch]. Text begins at end of Parshath Lech Lecha.

(SOLOMON YITZCHAKI) (RASH”I)

Yemen

1951 Shtarot (i.e. Adar 1640)

Hebrew manuscript in Yemenite square script. Text in double columns, with 25 lines per column. First leaf of Bereshith in another (later) Yeminite hand. Few leaves with marginalia in another old Yeminite hand. Black ink on paper.

Some slight variances from the published text appear in this manuscript and it should be checked for variances. Yemenite scribes were known to copy texts from early manuscripts as well as published works. The dating of documetns and manuscripts according to the “Shtarot” Chronology was abolished by R. David Ibn Zimra (RaDva”Z) in Egypt, who established the use of dating chronology according to the date of creation. On this unusual method of dating, see: H. Bornstein, Ta’arich Shtarot, in; Ha’Tekufah, Vol. 8, pp.290-321 and A. A. Akiva, Calendar for 6000 Years, with Comparative Tables and Introductions by Nathan Fried (pp.649-650). (Jerusalem, 1976). Fried states that only the Jews in the remote exile of Yemen continued to use this method of dating until 1950. When they emigrated to Israel this chronological method was completely abolished.