R. Jacob Nathanael Weil
Karlsruhe 1755
First Edition – First Hebrew book printed in Karlshrue.
Comprehensive commentary on R. Asher b. Jehiel’s commentary to Mo’ed and Nashim. This was the first Hebrew book printed and issued in Karlsruhe. It has since been printed in all editions of the Talmud containing the Rosh.
R. Jacob Nathanael b. Naphtali Zevi Hirsch Weil (1687–1769), studied at the yeshivah of R. Abraham Broda in Prague, and in Metz. Later, he served as head of a yeshivah in Prague. On the expulsion of the Jews from Bohemia in 1744, he was appointed rabbi of the Schwarzwald (Black Forest) district. In 1750 he became rabbi of Karlsruhe.
He also wrote Netiv Hayyim (Fuerth, 1779), annotations to the Shulhan Arukh, Orah Hayyim, and Torat Netanel, responsa and sermons (2 vols., Fuerth 1795).
Wide margins, light age and damp staining, old hand on fly, dark stains to several leaves.
A very good copy bound in contemporary full leather over boards,
32 cm. Good condition.
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