Be'er Sheva [novellae to Talmudic Tractates Horayoth, Tamid, Kereithoth, Sotah, Sanhedrin and Chullin; and Responsa]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: $850

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author

EILENBURG, ISSACHAR BAER

printer

Giovanni Caleone

Place

Venice

Publication

1614

Description

Title within architectural arch, with busts male and female to left and right. Extensive scholarly marginalia. Haskamoth (approbations) of Leib Saraval of Venice, Moses Galante of Safed, Judah Löw (Mahara”l) of Prague, Mordechai Jaffe of Posen and Aaron ben Chaim (author Korban Aharon)

references

Vinograd, Venice 1076

summary

The author, R. Issachar Baer Eilenburg (c.1570-1623), Rabbi of Gorizia, Italy, studied under R. Judah Löw in the latter’s yeshivah in Prague and later in the Posen yeshivah of Rabbi Mordecai Jaffe (author Levushim). Along the way, Eilenburg imbibed Kabbalistic teachings from the likely disciple of R. Isaac Luria, R. Israel Sarug. Eilenburg’s most celebrated work is the present Be’er Sheva, to this day a favored commentary to several tractates of the Talmud. See JE, Vol. V, pp. 77-78.

ff. (14 of 18), 121, (1). Extensive repairs to title with some loss, dampstained. Modern boards. Sm. folio

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