SEFER LEVUSH HA-ORAH (SUPERCOMMENTARY ON RASHI’S PENTATEUCH COMMENTARY), RABBI MORDECHAI JAFFE, PRAGUE: HAYYIM BAR JACOB HA-KOHEN FOR ABRAHAM AND JUDAH LEIB SCHEDEL, 1603

Levush ha-orah, a supercommentary on Rashi’s Pentateuch commentary, is the sixth book of Jaffe’s ten-part Levush malkhut series (see lot 164). In addition to explaining the words of Rashi themselves, the author engages the comments of other prominent Rashi exegetes, particularly Rabbis Elijah Mizrahi (ca. 1450-1526) and Judah Loew ben Bezalel of Prague (ca. 1525-1609) (see lot 158). The present complete copy of the work includes the important map of the Land of Israel, as well as the rare unfoliated appendix, which contains the author’s halakhic insights in the field of Orah hayyim that occurred to him after the first edition of his Levush ha-tekhelet and Levush ha-hur had already been printed (Lublin, 1590).