Torath Ha’Adam [laws concerning the sick and dying, and the Afterlife]

MOSES BEN NACHMAN (NACHMANIDES / RaMBa”N).

Giovanni di Gara

Venice

1595

Second edition. From the collection of the Anglo-Jewish scholar Gerald M. Friedlander with his dense notations.

Vinograd, Venice 815; Habermann, di Gara 158; Adams M-1874.

With a laudatory poem by Judah Aryeh (Leon de) Modena on f.2. The verso of the final leaf, contains the famed historical letter penned by Nachmanides to his son, describing the destitute condition of Eretz Israel following the invasion of the Tatar hordes in the year 1260. Nachmanides sums up the dismal state of affairs by stating: “An underlying principle is, the more holy the place, the more desolate. - Jerusalem is more desolate than the rest of the Land, and Judah more desolate than the Galilee.”