Mizbe’ach HaZahav [commentary to passage of Pitum HaKetoreth].

SOLOMON BEN MORDECHAI OF MEZRITCH

Konrad Waldkirch

Basle

1602

First Edition. Title within historiated architectural border featuring multiple cherubs. The London Beth Din copy.

Vinograd, Basle 213; Prijs, Basle 179.

This work is intended to illuminate the meaning behind the recitation of the Pitum HaKetoreth, which will ‘save souls from destruction at a time of (Divine) rage’. Little is known of the author, other than the fact that he was a disciple of Solomon Luria, the MaHaRSha”L. Due to the subject matter, the Author regarded his work as being invested with spiritual “protective qualities” from the travails of life.