Tzedah la-Derech [“Provision for the Way”]

Eilenburg, Issachar Baer

Joseph and Judah Bak

Prague

1623

FIRST EDITION.

Vinograd, Prague 309

An important super-commentary to Rashi, the most famous Jewish Bible exegete. The author, R. Issachar Baer Eilenburg (c.1570-1623) was mentored by 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 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. V, pp. 77-8. The author was evidently proud of this work of his; he states he titled it Provision for the Way - “in the hope that it would protect [him] on [his] way to the One Above after [his] sojourn in this world