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Bidding Information
Lot #    5673
Auction End Date    10/8/2003 10:00:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Rashi Al Ha'Torah
Title (Hebrew)    רש'י על התורה
Author    [Ms.] R. Solomon b. Isaac
City    [Yemen]
Publication Date    c. 1850
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [95] ff., 229:160 mm., light age staining, few minor wormholes, ink on heavy paper, neat Yeminite script, 43 lines per page in double columns. A beautiful ms. bound in modern full morocco boards, ruled in blind.
          
Detailed
Description		    The full text of Rashi's commentary to the Pentateuch. Rashi's commentary, which has enjoyed an enormous circulation, with more than 200 supercommentaries. The study of Rashi's commentary spread to such an extent that he was accorded the title of "Parshandata" ("the expounder of the law," "the commentator par excellence," a pun on Esther 9:7). It was even laid down in the halakhah that the reading of the weekly portion with his commentary could take the place of the obligatory reading "twice in the original and once in the Targum." Yemenite Jewry not being privy to the press, hand wrote all their liturgy books through the 19th century. This copy was written for the purpose of weekly recital on the Sabbath.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Yemen
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
Other:    Book
  
Kind of Judaica