Ahavath Yehonathan [Commentary to Haphtoroth with Alon Bachuth commentary on the Book of Lamentations]. Edited by Eybeschuetz’s disciple, R. David ben Joseph of Magdeburg

EYBESCHEUTZ, JONATHAN.

Conrad Joseph Spiring

Hamburg

1765

FIRST EDITION. Title in typographic border

(Vinograd, Hamburg 88)

THE RARE FIRST SAMPLE EDITION, with an introduction not published in subsequent editions. The publisher relates he did not have the financial means to publish the work in its entirety, therefore, as a start, first to be published are the commentaries to Eichah (Lamentations) and the ”Shiva De-Nechamta” (the seven Haphtoroth of Consolation), thereafter, he states, if this initial offering is received well, he will publish two facicles each week until the entire book is completed. The work did indeed gain popularity and the complete edition, including the first part, on the Haphtaroth of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers, was finally issued a year later in 1766. The book was issued as a tribute to Eybeschuetz who died on the 21st of Ellul, 1764. Unkown to Vinograd who lists only the complete edition with a different pagination