Ein Yaakov With Handwritten Glosses And Annotations, Penned by Rabbi Yeshayahu Mordechai Bassan, Teacher of The ...

Ein Yaakov With Handwritten Glosses And Annotations, Penned by Rabbi Yeshayahu Mordechai Bassan, Teacher of The Ramchal. Verona, 1650.

Volume One of Ein Yaakov on the Talmud. Verona edition, 1650. With numerous handwritten scholarly glosses and corrections, penned by Rabbi Yeshayahu Mordechai Bassan.

On leaf 24b: “With apologies to his honor…refer there…my master The Rabach.”

On leaf 39a: “this language is surprising and is not the language of Rashi z”l…”

Rabbi Yeshayahu Bassan (1673-1739) was a leading Italian Kabbalist and sage. He was the teacher of the Ramchal and his staunch supporter during the time of a polemic against him. Rabbi Yeshayahu’s father, Rabbi Yisrael Chizkiyahu was prominent Torah scholar and Av Beit Din Verona, and was his son’s primary teacher. Rabbi Yeshayahu learned under Mantua’s leading sages, The Remez and Rabbi Yehudah Briel. He married the daughter of Kabbalist, The RaBach, Rabbi Binyamin Cohen of Reggio.

Rabbi Yeshayahu served as Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva in Padua. Following his father-in-law’s passing, Rabbi Yeshayahu assumed the role of Av Beit Din Reggio.

Very few of Rabbi Yeshayahu’s writings were published; only a few responsa in the book, Lachmei Todah, Venice, 1741. The rest remained in manuscript form.

Rabbi Yeshayahu was an accomplished poet. Most of his compositions that remained unpublished are found in the National Library or in the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

Verona, 1650.

[4], 304 leaves. Missing title page. Mold damage on final pages, not affecting text.