Binath HaMaskil.

EPSTEIN, ABRAHAM BEN MESHULAM ZEMEL HALEVI.

Germany

1724

Autograph Manuscript in Hebrew, written in brown inks in a cursive Aschkenazic hand on paper.

A super-commentary on the Kabbalistic portions of Nachmanides’s commentary on the Bible. AN AUTOGRAPH UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT. Very few commentaries on the esoteric and kabbalistic comments of the Ramba’n in his classic commentary to the Torah are extant. Wherever the Ramba’n concludes a statement with the words “hamaskil yavin” (the intelligent will understand), he is alluding to a deeper meaning of the statement. Here we have an original work - the only extant copy of this commentary - that elucidates the intention of the Ramba’n. BOUND WITH: 1. Likutei Seguloth [2 pp.] with a notation in the hand of R’ Judah Asad. * 2. A copy of the glosses of R’ Chaim Vital on Zohar. * 3. Prayer of Repentance by the Tanna R’ Elazar ben Arach. * 4. Ashirah L’Hashem Ve’Azamrah [poem] attributed to Rav Sa’adiya Gaon. For a more detailed description of the manuscript, see Y. Y. Weiss, Tzefunoth, Vol. 16, p. 98.