(She’elot LehaChacham R. Shaul HaKohen). Commentaries on Moreh Nevuchim by Don Yitzchak Abarbanel, R. Yosef Gikatilla and other Torah scholars.
Venice: Zuan di Gara, 1574. Only edition.
The Sefer includes commentaries to Moreh Nevuchim by Rabbi Moshe son of Yehuda Nagari, commentary to the 25 propositions at the beginning of Part II of Moreh Nevuchim, by Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad al-Tabrisi (translated from Arabic by Rabbi Yitzchak of Cordoba), and commentaries to Moreh Nevuchim by Rabbi Yosef Gikatilla.
Flyleaf with the signature of the Gaon Rabbi Akiva Wertheimer [1778-1835]. He was born to his father Rabbi Avigdor Wertheimer in Breslau, and he is eternally known by the name of this city. Rabbi Akiva was the primary disciple of the gaon Rabbi Akiva Eiger. In 1816, he accepted the invitation from the Altona community to serve as their rabbi. There he joined the struggle against the Reform community in Hamburg and prohibited the use of the German-language prayer book. In 1823, Rabbi Akiva was appointed to the most prominent rabbinic position in Ashkenaz, that of the chief rabbi of Altona and Schleswig-Holstein, after the dissolution of the AH”U communities association. Preceding him in this lofty position was the gaon Rabbi Mendel Frankfurter, grandfather of Rabbi Shimshon Raphael Hirsch. The author of Aruch LaNer was appointed chief rabbi after the gaon Rabbi Akiva Wertheimer’s passing.
31 Leaves. 19.2 Cm.
(Out of 26; 31 leaves.)
(Out of 26; 31 leaves.)
Overall in Good condition. few stains. small marginal tears, antique binding, spine rubbed.
This of the Sefer amounts to collectanea of various indices and commentaries to Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed: Index by Rabbi Moses ben Judah Nagari (ff. 2-3); Twenty-five Prefaces of Abu Bakr bin Muhammad al-Tabrizi to the Second Part of the Guide (ff. 3-18); Commentaries Attributed to Rabbi Joseph Gikatilia (ff. 19-31).
The attribution to the kabbalist Joseph Gikatilia, author of Sha’arei Orah, should not strike one as outlandish. Actually, Maimonides’ philosophical work, bizarre as it might seem, attracted sundry mystical interpretations. Witness the fact that Gikatilia’s teacher, Abraham Abulafia, founder of the school of “prophetic kabbalah, ’” composed a lengthy commentary to Guide of the Perplexed
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