Nahar Pishon
by Rabbi Yitzchak Abuhav
First Edition. Constantinople, 1538
Kushta Reish
Drushim on Tanach and on lessons of Chazal by the great 15th century Rabbi, scholar and Kabbalist Rabbi Yitzchak Abuhav.
Published by the author’s son Rabbi Yaakov Abuhav; with an introduction from Rabbi Yaakov at the end of the sefer.
Printed by the Gershom Soncino Press. The top of the title page is marked with the printer’s name Soncine.
Rabbi Yitzchak Abuhav (1433-1493) was one of the great Sephardic Gedolim during the era of the Spanish Expulsion and was thus renowned as “the last gaon of Castile”.
He is also called Rabbi Yitzchak Abuhav the II in order to distinguish him from his great-great-grandfather Rabbi Yitzchak Abuhav, author of Menoras Hamaor.
Rabbi Yitzchak Abuhav was the teacher and spiritual mentor of Rabbi Yaakov Beirav who taught the Beis Yosef, and the latter thus commonly refers to him as “Rabbeinu Hagadol”. During the year of the Spanish Expulsion, he journeyed to Portugal in order to prevail upon the king to allow settlement of the exiles on Portuguese soil; he was niftar there several months later.
Constantinople, 1538. First Edition. Page Count: [80] leaves.
Page Size: 22 cm. Restorations at corners of margins.
Bibliography: Yaari, Constantinople #126
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