Lectures and commentaries upon biblical and talmudic passages by R. Abraham Naphtali b. Israel Isaac Gallant (1876-1936). He was born in Zakroczym, Poland, and was ordained by R. Jonah Zlotnick of Plock, Poland. He served as a rabbi in his native town before immigrating to America in 5666 [1906]. He became the rabbi of Talmud Torah Beth Abraham of the Bronx in 1917. R. Gallant was the president of the Board of Orthodox Rabbis of New York, a delegate to the American Jewish Congress and a member of Agudath Harabbonim. R. Gallant considered the mass immigration to America to be a temporary sojourn and he anticipated that the Jews would return to Eastern Europe. Many of his sermons criticize Reform Judaism and deviations by immigrants from Orthodoxy.

Acceding to popular demand, R. Gallant decided to publish this volume of his sermons. Due to the high cost of printing, only sermons for Genesis and material for sermons for Exodus were printed. Two English sermons "were incorporated with this volume to make it accessible to the English reader" (pp. 3, 193; the sermons are on pp. 195-222). For usages of English phrases within the text of his Hebrew sermons, see pp. 42, 64. For a comparison of the role of women in antiquity and modernity, see pp. 69-73. On the preference of American Jews for Zionism and Reform over traditional Orthodoxy, see p. 101. For a comparison of the role of the rabbi in the eyes of Jews in America with that in {he eyes of the Jews in Europe, see p. 108. On the position of the Jews in America, see p. 188.