Sefer Yesod: Ma’asei Hashem with Commentary on the Hagaddah.
First Edition. Venice, 1583
An important commentary on the Pesach Haggadah by the great Rabbi Eliezer Ashkenazi. Includes the complete text of the Haggadah.
The sefer includes commentaries on all the "Ma’asiyos" in the Torah, in four parts: Ma’asei Bereishis, Ma’asei Avos, Ma’asei Mitzrayim (including the commentary of the Haggadah) and Ma’asei Torah.
The complete Haggadah with the commentary is printed on pages 119b-138a.
The author is the physician Rabbi Eliezer Ashkenazi (Italy 1512-Cracow 1585), son of Rabbi Eliyahu Ashkenazi and son-in-law of the Maharik. He negotiated halacha with the Beis Yosef, the Rema, the Maharshal, the Bach and more.
"He was almost the only one of his generation that all the geonim would send their questions and answers to." (Haskama of Baal Pnei Yehoshua to his sefer Yosef Lekach, Furth edition)
Venice, 1583. First edition.
Page Count: [6], 197 leaves.
Size: 29 cm.
Condition: restorationson the title page and two leaves. Tears, repairs, and wormholes in the margins of several leaves. Signs of usage.
Antique wooden binding with embossing and remnants of clasps, slightly damaged. New spine.
Early Ashkenazi signatures. Stamp of Rabbi Yosef ben Rabbi Yaakov Elmaliach.
Bibliography: Stefansky, Sifrei Yesod, no. 453; Otzar HaHaggadot, no. 30.
