Physical Description:

Only edition. [6], 201, [1] ff. octavo 222:140 mm., wide margins, use and age staining, bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.

Detailed Description:   

Only edition of Psalms with the commentary Edut be-Yehosef by R. Joseph Melamed Gargy. The title page describes the commentary as being found on holy mountains, desirable allusions on prayer, repentance, charity, and the holy names alluded to by the initial and final letters of words, with ta’amim on all the mizmorim, and the reason for the number of the holy names and verses as explained in the introduction. In addition Tikkun Shovavim at the end of the volume by the kabbalist R. Jacob ben David Pardo. The title page is dated with the verse “Joseph is a fruitful bough פורת (686 = 1926), a fruitful bough by a well” (Genesis 49:22). The verso has a dedicatory page to be completed by the buyer which informs that R. Gary was a teacher in Buchara St., Jerusalem. It is followed by a pizmon, an approbation from R. Hayyim Sonnenfeld, and the introduction. The text is comprised of Psalms and below it Edut be-Yehosef. After the section on Tehillim is Tikkun Shovavim, beginning with R. Pardo’s introduction and then the text.

R. Jacob ben David Pardo served as Rabbi at Ragusa and Spalato in the eighteenth century. He was the author of: "Marpe Lashon" (Venice, 1780), prayers and religious poems for children, printed conjointly with his "Tehillah be-Ereẓ," poems on the earthquake in Ragusa; "Ḳehillat Ya'aḳob" (ib. 1784), commentary on the Earlier Prophets; "Toḳfo shel Nes" (ib. 1789), introduction to the "Ma'aseh Nissim" of Aaron Cohen Ragusano; "Appe Zuṭre" (ib. 1797), novellæ to the treatise "Hilkot Ishshut," i.e., precepts for women; "Minhat Aharon" (ib. 1809), precepts for the religious ritual upon awakening, for the three daily prayers, and moral precepts; "Mishkenot Ya'aḳob" (Leghorn, 1824), commentary on Isaiah, published by his son David Samuel.

Hebrew Description:   

.References:   

BE ayin 130; JE; Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000309124