SEFER LEKAH TOV Rabbi Yom Tov ben Zahalon


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SEFER LEKAH TOV Rabbi Yom Tov ben Zahalon. 1977 reprint.


With Hebrew and English introductions by David Tamar. Limited, numbered, facsimile edition of 550 copies, on fine Swedish paper, of the first book ever printed in Eretz Israel (1577). It is also the first book printed in all of Asia (outside of China).


Published by the Jewish National and University Library Press on the 400th year anniversary of the book's first appearance. Jerusalem, 1977. ISBN 0405119526.
Hebrew text


This commentary on the Book of Esther by Rabbi Yom Tov ben Zahalon (c.1559 c. 1619) has kabalistic and messianic references shedding light on 16th century Safed mysticism. A leading scholar and rabbinic authority in Safed and a student of Joseph Caro, Rabbi Yom Tov ben Zahalon stirred controversy by attacking his teacher's Shulhan Aruh when it first appeared

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