First edition of this multi-part work sermons on the weekly Torah readings and yom tovim by R. Joseph Hayyim be Isaac Selig Caro. The volume includes four parts of Kol Emor Kera, Shemot through Devorim Shemot and Vayikra only have their own title-pages. The text, in two columns in rabbinic letters are extensive discourses on the weekly Torah readings, special shabatot such as Parashat Parah and Yom Tovim. Ḳol Omer Ḳera is a collection of sermons arranged after the order of the Pentateuch in the weekly sections. It is considered R. Joseph Hayyim primary work.

R. Joseph Hayyim be Isaac Selig Caro (1800-95) was a German-Russian rabbi was educated as an Orthodox Talmudist. He married the daughter of R. Ẓebi Hirsch Amsterdam of Konin, government of Kalisz in Russian Poland, whose pupil he became. He afterward established himself as a merchant in Gnesen, near Posen, whence, at about the age of forty, he was called to the rabbinate of Pinne, in the province of Posen. Later he became rabbi of Fordon, in the same province, and twenty years after his first call he became rabbi of the progressive and Germanized community of Wloclawek, where he remained until his death. He was one of the first truly Orthodox rabbis in Russia to acquire a correct knowledge of German and to deliver sermons in that language. He is famous not only for his extensive rabbinical knowledge, but also as a preacher; and even today his works are popular among traditional maggidim and darshanim. His first
work, Minḥat Shabbat is a German translation (in Hebrew characters) of Pirḳe Abot, with a short commentary in German and a longer one in Hebrew (Krotoschin, 1847). In the third edition of that work (Vilna, 1894) the German commentary is omitted and that of Maimonides substituted for it. His Ṭeva we-Haken; containing rules of sheḥiṭah and bediḳah in the form of a dialogue, was published by his sons Isaac and Jacob (Leipsic, 1859; 2d ed., Vilna, 1894). The last of his published works, Yoreh u-Malḳosh (Vilna, 1894), is also a collection of sermons, mostly funeral orations, some of which were originally delivered in German. In several of his works are poetical compositions and traces of the influence of modern ideas not common among the rabbis of Russian Poland. R. Caro was also a pioneer Zionist and defended the colonization of Palestine against the opponents of that plan. He attended to his rabbinical duties until past the age of ninety, retiring from active work only a few years before his death. As noted above, his primary and most famous work is the admired Kol Emor Kera.

Hebrew Description

ספר קול אומר קרא : דרושים ... לכל שבתות השנה, למועדים ... עם איזה הערותבבאורי המקראות ... בשם טעמא דקרא / ... יוסף חיים ... קרא ...