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Only edition of these discourses on the weekly Torah portion by R. Jacob ben Abraham Berlin. The title page states that Zikhron Ya’akov is desirable peshatim and derashot in the order of the Torah, entirely pure and clear, with sharpness. It is dated with the a chronogram from the verse “and Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents” (Genesis 25:27). There is an approbation on the verso of the title page from R. Joseph Steinhert and below it verse from R. Berlin, the initial letters of each line forming an acrostic of his name. The text follows in two columns in rabbinic type. After the Torah homilies is a discourse on the completion of Shass.
R. Jacob ben Abraham Berlin (1707-1749) was a German Talmudist; likely born in Berlin and died at Fuerth, Bavaria. He was a pupil of R. Jacob ha-Kohen, author of Shev Ya'akob, and later (not after 1734) settled at Fuerth, where he lived as a well-to-do private citizen. Of his seven works the tow only were published, both posthumously, this work and Be’er Ya'akob, a selection of responsa, with an appendix, on the terminology of the Talmud. They were published by his brother Isaac and his son Abraham, and edited by Isaac ben Meïr of Pfalzburg and Fuerth, 1767. His name and location not withstanding, R. Berlin was not related to the well-known Berlin family of Fuerth.
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