Physical Description

Only editions, octavo, 218:145., nice margins, usual age staining. Good copies bound in modern boards.

Haggadah:79 pp.; Yediot: [3], 5-7, [2], 11-66, [2] pp.; Zevi67 pp.

 

Detail Description

Three independent and varied works by R. Menaham Zevi ben Aryeh Taxin (Taksin).The first work is a Pesah Haggadah with a two part commentary, Nahalat Zevi and Yalkut Menahaem. There is an introduction, laws of Pesah and the bedikot with the commentaries. The Haggadah is accompanied by the two part commentary, Nahalat Zevi on the peshat and Yalkut Menahaem explains the Haggadah according to midrashim, and mussar, all in a clear and easily understood manner.

The second work is Yediot ha-Teva she be-Talmud, an  unusual work on the knowledge about the natural sciences to be found in the Talmud and midrashic works. The title page describes it as including all the sciences found in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds, Midrash Rabba, Midrash Tanhuma, Yalkut Shimoni, Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer, Pesikhta de-Rav Kahana, all arranged and ordered, divided into twenty-five chapters with annotations. Yedi’ot ha-Teva she-be-Talmud is in two parts, the first Torat ha-Adam, consisting of six chapters, and Toldot Teva ba’alei ha-Hayyim with nineteen chapters. Among the subject matter in the first part are the formation of the fetus, maintaining health, and medicine. The second part addresses such subjects as the nature of various life forms, large and small animals, insects, and birds, such things as ants, fleas and flies, and fish. There are chapters on plants, nature, measures and weights, and other related subjects. There is an introduction from R. Taksin, an approbation from R. Moses Nahum Yerushlimski, a table of contents, and the text.

The third work, Zevi Tiferet are discourses for festivals, beginning with Pesah and Shavuot and concluding with selihot and Rosh Ha-Shanah. Zevi Tiferet has approbations from R. Haim Berlin and R. Solomon Zalman Sender Kahana Shapira.

 

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