Weisz, Jekuthiel (Gaspar). Ra’ash Gadol [Agadah or Homiletics on the 613 Commandments of the Torah]

(ARGENTINA).

F. Kellerman

Buenos Aires

1937

FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece portrait of the Author

Friedberg, R-426

The book, by a native of Tiszafured, Hungary, was published by his son, Chaim Jacob (Eugenio) Villa, in the Argentine capital. The title clarifies that the words “Ra’ash Gadol” [Great Sound] have the same numerical value as 613, the number of religious precepts. On the penultimate page, there is an endorsement by Rabbi Dr. Ze’ev Tzevi Hakohen Klein, formerly rabbi of Eisenstadt and “Kehal Adath Israel,” Berlin, presently rabbi of Congregation “Achduth Israel,” Buenos Aires. Rabbi Klein was a nephew of Rabbi Dr. Hillel Klein of New York. See Lot 125 for a Hagadah with commentary by the same author, published three years earlier in Buenos Aires.