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Only edition of this bilingual commentary on the Sefer ha-Ebronot by R. Joshua Abraham ben Israel. The full title is Huke mamtakim : be-Inyenei Sefer ha-Ebronot ... meha-Yom ve-ad Sof Elef ha-Shishi ... veha-haga'ot shel umot ‘olam lefi minhag Rusya u-lefi minhag Polin, that is, it is an update and a commentary on the Sefer ha-Ebronot according to the custom f the Jews of Russia and Poland. There is an approbation signed by R. Samuel ben Nahman, R. Dov ben Jacob, and R. Samuel ben Judah. The text of Sefer ha-Ebronot is in the center of the page, set in square letters. The commentary is in two parts, the Hebrew text in rabbinic letters in the center column, the Yiddish translation in the outer column in square letters. At the end of the book are several calendars giving times according to the location in Eastern Europe.
Sefer Ebronot, on the intercalation of the Hebrew calendar, is an anonymous work. An important work on the subject, several suggestions have been made as to the identity of the author. Among them are R. Eliezer ben Jacob Beilen (Belin, Bellin) Ashkenazi. This attribution seems to be in error, However, for Beilin apparently lived in the late 16th early 17th centuries and emended Ebronot, his enhanced edition being first printed in Lublin, 1614. It has also been suggested that the printer of the Riva di Trento edition (1560), R. Jacob Marcaria, might be the author, for, as Joshua Bloch reports, "the Ibronot . . . and some fine explanatory notes on the text of the Passover Haggadah are credited to his pen." However, given the existence of an edition printed more than thirty years earlier (Basle, 1527), Marcaria too would seem unlikely as the author. |
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בעניני ספר העברונות... בכללים חדשים... ובפירוש ובטייטש... ולידע בו מהיום עד סוף אלף הששי כל שנה ושנה כמה היא במחזור קטן ובמחזור גדול... ואיזה שנה היא פשוטה או מעובר'... שלימה או כסדרה או חסירה. וכל המולדות וכל התקופות וכל
השאלות... והחגאות של אומות העולם לפי מנהג רוסיא ולפי מנהג פולין ([מאת] מה' יהושע אברהם במה' ישראל)... שנת ח'וק'י ממת'קים כ'ולו מ'חמדי'ם
הסכמה: ר' שמואל ב"ר נחמן, ר' דוב ב"ר יעקב ור' שמואל ב"ר יהודא, איסניצה, כה תשרי תקע"ח. |
