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Lot #    18072
Auction End Date    6/12/2007 10:36:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Toldot Yitzhok
Title (Hebrew)    תולדות יצחק
Author    [Kabbalah] R. Isaac b. Joseph Caro
City    Mantua
Publisher    Vinturin Rufinille
Publication Date    1558
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1], 81 ff., 292:195 mm., old hands, age and damp staining, wide margins. A very good copy bound in later half cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Commentary on the Pentateuch, which includes literal, homiletic, kabbalistic, and philosophical interpretations by R. Isaac b. Joseph Caro (c. 1458 - c. 1535), Spanish scholar who lived at the time of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. He was a native of Toledo, where he headed a yeshiva. Several years before the expulsion he moved with his yeshiva to Portugal. When the expulsion of the Jews from Portugal was decreed in 1497 he escaped to Turkey where he became one of the rabbis of Constantinople. There he published Toledot Yizhak (Constantinople, 1518). His book reveals him as a man of very wide culture. Its extreme popularity is evidenced by the fact that four editions were published in the short period of 14 years. In the introduction he describes the many hardships, including the death of his children, which he endured during his wanderings. He adopted his nephew, R. Joseph Caro, the author of the Shulhan Arukh, who frequently mentions him in terms of the highest admiration. He states his desire to settle in Erez Israel but it is not clear whether he was able to fulfill his wish. Only remnants of his other works remain. Three of his responsa appear in the works of R. Joseph Caro (Avkat Rokhel, Salonika 1791, no. 47, 48; Bet Yosef, Salonika 1598, on Even ha-Ezer, end). In his introduction to the latter work R. Judah, the son of R. Joseph Caro, declared his intention of collecting and publishing the rest of Isaac's responsa. Some of them are extant in manuscript (JTS, no. 0348). He also wrote novellae to tractate Ketubbot (Margoliouth, Cat, 535/2–3). His homilies under the title Hasdei David are in manuscript. Remnants of his commentary on Avot are quoted in the Midrash Shemu'el (Venice, 1579) of R. Samuel de Uceda.
          
Paragraph 2    ... להחכם... ר' יצחק קארו זצ"ל, זקנו [צ"ל: דודו] של... ר' יוסף קארו יצ"ו מצפת שבגליל העליון...

בשער: שנת ו'י'ש'ב' עליו באמת [שי"ח]. קולופון: ותשלם המלאכה... ביום ד ר"ח מרחשון שי"ט... יחסו של המחבר כזקנו של ר' יוסף קארו חוזר בכל ההוצאות הבאות.

          
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Description		    CD-EPI 0162288; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
16th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Italy:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
  
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica