Simanim Al Chidushei Ha-Bachaya. * With (as issued): Naphtulei Elo-him Niphtalti [Kabbalistic super-commentary and index to Bachaya b. Asher’s commentary to the Pentateuch]

TREVES, NAPHTALI HERTZ

Chaim Schachor (Schwartz) and Partners

Hedderenheim

1546

FIRST EDITION

Vinograd, Hedderenheim 1; Mehlman 652; Deinard, Atikoth Yehudah p.30; not in Adams

First of only two Hebrew books printed in this town near Frankfurt a/Main. The printer began his career at the Kohen printing establishment in Prague, where he produced almost all the woodcut illustrations for the famous Prague Hagadah of 1526. See A.M. Haberman, Kiryat Sepher, Vol. XXXI (1955-56) pp.483-500 This is an important commentary on Rabeinu Bachaya’s kabbalistic references. The introduction contains important genealogical information about the Treves family. For an excellent study on the Kabbalistic sources of R. Bachaya, see E. Gottlieb, Mekorotav shel R. Bachaya...Be’kitvei R. Yoseph Gikatilla in: Bar Ilan University Annual Vol. I (1969), pp. 306-26; and Yitzchak Sagi Nahor, Mekorot R. Bachaya Be’kitvei Ha’mekubalim in: Bar Ilan University Annual, Samuel Bialoblocki Memorial Volume (1964) pp.215-50.