Igereth HaTeshuvah [ethical and halachic work]

GERONDI, JONAH BEN ABRAHAM.

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Cracow

1586

Second edition. First edition of third discourse entitled “Drashath HaNashim”

Vinograd, Cracow 101; Mehlman 970; St. Cat. Bod. 5859, 1 (ed. rarissima); cf. Heller, The Sixteenth Century Hebrew Book, p. 839.

The introduction records that the Ro’sh (R. Asher ben Yechiel) instructed that the pious should study this work throughout the week in which Rosh Chodesh is celebrated (see Tur Orach Chaim Siman 16). Divided into three discourses that succinctly discuss various halachoth including those specifically pertaining to women. The title states that this edition has additional material entitled Divrei Chasiduth Le’Achronim, however in the book itself this section is entitled Divrei Mussar Chachamim. In the introduction, the anonymous publisher recounts his tribulations in seeking to bring this work to press following receipt of the manuscript from Nathan Otling. It includes portions of the last will and testament of Maimonides and selections from Sepher Olam Katan (omitted from future editions). According to Yudlov the text of the first two discourses of this edition differ from the first Constantinople edition. See S. Abramson, Tagim 3-4 (1972) pp. 9-10.