Todath Shelamim. Part I: Zivchei Todah [commentaries to Tractate and laws of Nidah]. Part II: Lachmei Todah [responsa]

BASSAN, ISAIAH.

Foa-Bragadin

Venice

1741

FIRST EDITION . Historiated woodcut printer’s mark on verso of title containing two rampant lions flanking a palm tree in whose center there is a Star of David, all set within a cartouche; surrounding are the words “A just man will flourish as a palm tree” (Psalms 92:13). The R. Shmuel Halberstam of Bardiov copy.

Vinograd, Venice 1810.

The author, a disciple of R. Moshe Zacuto, was one of the foremost Italian Rabbis of the 18th century. He served in Padua and Reggio and is especially renowned as the teacher and mentor of R. Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, author of Mesillath Yesharim. The present work of responsa was published by his son, Israel Benjamin, a poet and a Rabbinical scholar in his own right, who succeeded his father as Rabbi of Reggio. He included here some of his own responsa.