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Psalms with three commentaries by R. Isaac Elijah ben Samuel Landau of Dubno. The title page describes the work as Psalms with the commentaries Kefalim le-Teshuia (“wisdom is manifold,” Job 11:6), to understanding the basic meaning without errors or misinterpretations; Matah le-Shem (“a plantation of renown,” Ezekiel 34:29), to understand the characteristics of the divine Name, the name ע"ג; Meshal u-Melizah (“a proverb and a figure” Proverbs 1:6), to discern the Psalms, the meaning of the words as the sun shines. The title page is dated, הבינו משל ומליצה (624 = 1864), although the Latin date is given as 1865 and the Hebrew date on the original yellow wrappers, bound with the work, is given as תרכ"ו (1866). On the verso of the title page is the censor’s (B. Cymerman) permission to print, dated 1865. There is an introduction (2a-6a); prayers to be said before saying Psalms, with commentary; and the text. Psalms are in vocalized square letters, immediately below are Matah le-Shem in the outer column, Kefalim le-Teshuia in the inner column, and below Meshal u-Melizah, all in rabbinic type.
R. Isaac Elijah ben Samuel Landau (1801–1876), Lithuanian preacher and biblical commentator. Landau was born in Vilna. He married the daughter of the wealthy and well-known Zadok Marshalkovitch of Dubno, and was relieved of financial cares and although he did occasionally engage in business, he spent most of his life in Dubno compiling his books and sermons, using the method of parables in the style of Jacob Kranz, the Maggid of Dubno. Landau was chosen by the communities of Volhynia to be their representative on the committee set up by the Russian minister of the interior to deal with religious affairs, and for this purpose he lived in St. Petersburg for several months in 1861. In 1868 he became official preacher and dayyan of Vilna. His sermons were popular.
The following are among his main works: Ma'aneh Eliyahu (Vilna, 1840), a commentary on the Tanna de-Vei Eliyahu published in the same volume with Si'ah Yizhak, biblical and aggadic novellae; Berurei ha-Middot (Vilna, 1844), expositions and novellae to the Mekhilta, to which was joined a treatise, Mizzui ha-Middot, "for the understanding of biblical rhetoric and the sayings of the sages"; Mikra Soferim (Suwalki, 1862), expositions and novellae to tractate Soferim; and Dover Shalom (Warsaw, 1863), a commentary on the prayer book. The following of his commentaries and parables in the Bible have been published: Patshegen, a commentary on Proverbs (Koenigsberg, 1858), Psalms (Warsaw, 1866) and 12 Minor Prophets and the Five Scrolls (Vilna, 1869/70); and Patshegen ha-Dat (Vilna, 1872/5), on the Pentateuch. Landau published the Derekh Erez Zuta (1872) with the commentary Derekh Hayyim ve-Orhot Hayyim; and expositions of the aggadot of the Talmud to Berakhot and Shabbat (Vilna, 1876). His sermons were published in Vilna in 1871 and 1876. |
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עם ביאור כפלים לתושיה, לבאר מובן פשטי ... מליצת המקרא... וכפילת המאמרים... וביאור מטע לשם, לבאר תכונת קדושת השם, שם ע"ב... וביאור משל ומליצה... להשכיל מזמורי תהלים ומליצת המלים... נוסדו יחד מאת ... מו"ה יצחק אליהו לנדא מדובנא
בהרב... שמואל לנדא ז"ל מווילנא...
דף ו, ב-ז: יהי רצון קודם תהלים. פותח: יהי רצון מלפניך... הבוחר בדוד עבדו ובזרעו אחריו. אוצר השירה והפיוט, ד, עמ' 172, מס' 108.
דף קסח: יהי רצון אחר תהלים. פותח: יהי רצון מלפניך ... בזכות ספר... שבתהלים שקראנו לפניך... שתכפר לנו ... שם, ב, עמ' 315, מס' 1266.
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