Drash Moshe
Aggados of the Talmud with Commentary
Cracow 1589. Singular Edition!
256 aggadic passages that appear in Talmud Bavli and Yerushalmi, each followed by a commentary by the gaon Rabbi Moshe ben Yitzchak of Pizentz.
At the beginning of each section, the aggadah of Chazal is printed in square script, followed by the body of the commentary in Rashi script.
This is the only edition ever printed of this commentary!
A very rare sefer!
The author,
Rabbi Moshe of Pizentz, was one of the sages of Moravia in the early 16th century. He was a brilliant scholar and a gifted poet. He included several of his poetic compositions at the beginning and end of the sefer. While he also wrote works on Midrashim and other topics, these were never published. In 1595, he also printed in Cracow an exceedingly rare booklet titled ‘Hei HaYedi’ah’, a poem composed of two thousand words all beginning with the Hebrew letter “hei”.
Printed in Cracow by the famed printer Yitzchak ben Aharon of Prosnitz.
The sefer opens with a beautifully illustrated title page, topped with an image of the Akeidas Yitzchak.
Cracow, 1589. Singular Edition (aside from one later facsimile reproduction).
Page Count: 71, [1] leaf.
Size: 29.3 cm.
Condition: Paper repairs and completions on the last three leaves (six lines on two leaves were completed from another copy). Aside from that, the sefer is in overall good condition. Several scattered stains and small marginal tears in a few leaves.
Antique leather binding with clasps, not the original (the clasps are larger than the sefer’s thickness and are partially folded). On the leather cover are remnants of a handwritten list of sefarim from the private library of a talmid chacham, listing sefarim of kabbalah, mussar, halachah, and more.
Provenance: William Gross Collection, Tel Aviv. This copy is the one photographed and cataloged in the Otzar HaSefer HaIvri (Winograd).
