Commentaries on the Ibn Ezra: Margalios Tova, with the Rare Page of Illustrations.
Amsterdam, 1722
Margalios Tova:
The complete commentary of Rabbi Avraham Ibn Ezra’s on the Torah, with three important compositions explaining his commentary:
1)
‘Mekor Chaim’ by Rabbi Yonah Tzartza.
2)
‘Ohel Yosef’ by Rabbi Yosef ben Rabbi Eliezer HaSephardi.
First edition.
3)
‘Peirush Motot’ (Megillas Setarim) by Rabbi Shmuel Motot HaSephardi.
The sefer was published by Rabbi Yekusiel Lazi Ashkenazi, a grandson of the author of ‘Avodas HaGershoni’.
It includes the special page of illustrations (which is missing in many copies), containing illustrations of the zodiac, the order of the stones of the Choshen, the order of the shevatim’s encampment around the Mishkan, and more.
This page is larger than the rest of the sefer: 31.5x 22cm.
Amsterdam, 1722. First edition of the commentary ‘Ohel Yosef’ (and the first time the three commentaries were printed together).
Page Count: [4], 156, [1] pages.
Size: 31.5 cm.
Condition: Good. Isolated stains; punctures in a few pages. A small tear in the page of drawings, glued from the back.
Provenance: William Gross Collection, Tel Aviv.
Bibliography: Stefansky, Sifrei Yesod, with additions to No. 2.
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Ibn Ezra’s commentaries were renowned worldwide for their wisdom and depth, and many commentaries were written on it. The present edition includes three fundamental commentaries on the Ibn Ezra, that enhance the Ibn Ezra’s words.
In the introduction before us, the publisher cites a letter attributed to the Rambam, in which he instructs his son:
"… Exert your mind only with the commentaries and the sefarim of the sage Rabbi Avraham Ibn Ezra z"l, because they are excellent, and useful to anyone who reads them with good thought, pure intellect and fine study… Because he was like Avraham Avinu in spirit…"
