Pa’ane’ach Raza [commentary to the Pentateuch]

YITZCHAK BAR YEHUDAH HALEVI.

Yaakov Batavnutz and Yaakov Bak

Prague

1607

Vinograd, Prague 154.

RARE FIRST EDITION. Even the great bibliophile the Chid”a, in his Shem Hagedolim, Ma’arecheth Sepharim, states he only saw the second (Amsterdam, 1698) edition of this work. The text contains comments and interesting use of Gematrioth and Notrikin from the French Ba’alei Tosfoth, R. Ya’akov of Orleans, R. Yoseph Bechor Schor, R. Yehudah HaChasid and others. Azulai cites the Seder Hadoroth who states that the editor was R. Yitzchak Katz, son-in-law of the Mahara’l of Prague, who added some of his own comments in the parentheses. Azulai notes that both the word Pa’ane’ach and Raza are the numerical equivalent (208) of both the author’s and the editor’s name - Yitzchak.