Tzedah LaDerech [“Provision for the Way”]

Eilenburg, Issachar Baer

Joseph and Judah Bak

Prague

1623

FIRST EDITION. Various owners signatures on title page, including the illustrious R. Meshulam Zalman Cohen of Tziltz (later of Fürth, author of Bigdei Kehunah); an inscription as a wedding gift from Mordechai Libshitz and others

Vinograd, Prague 309

An important super-commentary to Rashi, the most famous Jewish Bible exegete. The author, R. Issachar Baer Eilenburg (c.1570-1623) studied under R. Judah Löw in the latter’s yeshivah in Prague. He later studied in Posen in the yeshivah of Rabbi Mordecai Jaffe, author of the Levush. Eilenburg’s most famous work is Be’er Sheva (Venice, 1614), to this day a favorite commentary on several tractates of the Talmud. Eilenburg served as rabbi of Austerlitz, Moravia before he was called to serve the rabbinate in Safed (see f.2b), which his premature death prevented. See JE, Vol. 5, pp. 77-8