Mesos Kal HaMithablim [“Rejoice All the Mourners”].

EYBESCHUETZ, DAVID SOLOMON BEN YERACHMIEL.

Nemirov

1833

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in cursive Aschkenazic hand on paper by Moshe ben Yekuthiel Varhaftman of Nemirov. Elegant title-page, two columns per page. From the library of RABBI NACHUM DOV-BER FRIEDMAN OF SADIGURA , signed on pink opening blank and with his two alternating stamps on title-page, a symbol of a lion surrounded by his name in both Hebrew and Latin letters and “Kinyan Kaspi.”

The only extant manuscript of this commentary to the Book of Eichah (Lamentations). It was originally composed in 1783 and first published in 1989. R. David Solomon Eybeschuetz (1755-1814) is celebrated for his homiletic work to the Bible, “Arvei Nachal.” Rabbi of Soroka, he settled in Safed in 1809, where he died shortly thereafter.