Me’ametz Ko’ach [sermons and eulogies]

ALMOSNINO, MOSES

Asher Parenzo for Giovanni di Gara

Venice

1588

Second edition. Printer’s device on title, f. 225b and final leaf

Vinograd, Venice 726; Habermann, di Gara 102; not in Adams

Me’ametz Ko’ach contains twenty-eight - (thus Ko'ach, the numerical Hebrew equivelant of 28) - sermons by this celebrated preacher of the Neveh Shalom Congregation and an important communal leader of the Salonika Jewish community. Almosnino draws upon a broad repertoire of medieval interpreters: Maimonides, Nachmanides, R. David Kimchi, ibn Shuaib, et al. See EJ, Vol. II, cols. 667-71. Born in Salonika, Moses ben Baruch Almosnino (c. 1515-c. 1580), hailed from a distinguished Spanish Jewish family originally from the town of Jaca inAragon. He was renowned for his knowledge of rabbinical matters and for his scholarship in the sciences, particularly natural physics and astronomy.