Bigdei Aharon [sermons]

TE’OMIM, AARON

Johannes Kölner

Frankfurt a/Main

1711

FIRST EDITION. Fine Large Paper-Copy. Title within highly-wrought historiated border.

Vinograd, Frankfurt a/Main 263

An impressive, wide-margined copy. The author was a highly sought preacher, indeed the appendage "Darshan" was added to his name. His commentary Matteh Aharon on the Passover Haggadah is particularly esteemed. In 1670 he succeded R. Shimshon Bachrach as Rabbi of Worms. R. Yair Chaim Bachrach, author of Chavoth Yair, who claimed that this important Rabbinical seat belonged to him as a matter of right, took to criticizing the pilpulistic nature of Bigdei Aharon. In 1690 Aaron Te’omim was murdered, hence the acrostic HYD "Hashem Ynkom Damo," on the titlepage.