Cheshek Shlomo [commentary to the Book of Isaiah, with text]

HALEVI, SOLOMON BEN ISAAC

Mattathias Bat-Sheva

Salonika

1600

FIRST EDITION. Title within wreathed architectural columns.

Vinograd, Salonika 154; Mehlman, Genuzoth Sepharim 66

The author, a native of Salonika, writes in the introduction that his grandfather, the physician Maestro Solomon Halevi, a Spanish exile by way of Portugal, settled in Salonika a century earlier. This work continues the Sephardic tradition in both its rationalist and mystic aspects, citing at times Maimonides' Guide, at other times, the Zohar. Other published works by the same author include: Lev Avoth (Salonika, 1565 and 1571), commentary to Avoth; Divrei Shelomo (Venice, 1596), sermons on the weekly portion and festivals; and Lechem Shelomo (Venice, 1597), commentary to Talmud, Midrash and Zohar. On f. 52v. the Author mentions another (unpublished) work of his, Minchath Zikaron, a commentary to the Musaph Service of Rosh Hashanah. See JE, Vol. VIII, p. 36-37.