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Commentary by the Ohr HaChaim HaKadosh on the Torah. First Edition. Incomplete Copy
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Commentary by the Ohr HaChaim HaKadosh on the Torah. First Edition. Incomplete Copy
Orchot Chaim - Chamishah Chumshei Torah, with Targum and Rash"i's commentary, and with the Ohr HaChaim commentary by Rabbeinu Chaim ben Attar- the 'Ba'al Ohr HaChaim HaKadosh.' Venice, 1741. First edition of the Ohr HaChaim commentary on the Torah, printed by the author. Incomplete copy.
Printed on the title page: "New commentary on chamishah chumshei Torah ... prepared and examined ... by the sage complete in wisdom, fear of G-d, and humility, Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar, resident of the West, who has now left to transfer his beit midrash to the city of Jerusalem ... New novellae not imagined by earlier sages ..." The author opens his commentary: "The heavens opened and I saw G-dly visions ..."
On the title pages, the name of the book is referred to as Orchot Chaim, but in his preface, the author writes that the name of the book is Ohr HaChaim, and at the tops of the book's pages, "Ohr HaChaim" is printed, and this is how it has been known all through the generations.
The author, Rabbeinu Chaim ben Attar (1696-1743), the "Ohr HaChaim HaKadosh, " one of the sages of Salé, Morocco, ascended to the Land of Israel via Italy, where he stayed 1739-1742 in Livorno. He finished this work while he was in Livorno, on Tu B'Av 1741, and immediately sent it to be printed in Venice. The author is one of the few rabbinic leaders throughout the generations who was also granted the title "HaKadosh" across the Jewish world.
Volume I: Bereishit Shemot.
Starts with leaf 20, parashat Lech Lecha. Blemishes, left-margin crop with lack to the text from leaf 20 through leaf 62 (towards the end of parashat VaYeishev). From leaf 63 to the end of chumash Shemot is complete, with the haftarah leaves.
86: 78, 8 leaves. 32 cm.
Volume II: Vayikra, Bamidbar, Devarim. Slight blemishes in the title page. Minimal worming perforations.
Lacking the last 11 leaves of the haftarot.
[2] leaves (including the title page and the Italian censor's permit.) 60, 72, 58 [1 haftarah leaf is marked א]
31 cm.
New binding.
