Na"ch. Agudat Shmuel. Especially Rare Pocket Edition. Polemic. Amsterdam, 1699

Na"ch. Agudat Shmuel. Especially Rare Pocket Edition. Polemic. Amsterdam, 1699

Sefer HaMaggid. Nevi'im and Ketuvim with Rash"i's commentary, Yiddish, and Agudat Shmuel by R' Shmuel Delogtash, that which he compiled and collected from old sefarim, Haga"h D'Rabi Ovadiah HaNavi [of Grotem(?)] and Kitvei HaAr"i. Amsterdam, 1699. Four volumes. Rare first edition. Lacking individual leaves.

Nevi'im and Ketuvim with a Yiddish translation per the Tze'enah U'Re'enah in Tze'enah U'Re'enah lettering, with supplements to Rash"i.

Rash"i's commentary appears with likkutim (supercommentaries to Rash"i and the text) named Agudat Shmuel scattered across the commentary. Each comment is in parentheses, concluding with the source citation. For more about compilations in the Agudat Shmuel commentary on Rash"i, inserted thereafter in many publications of Rash"i and occasionally subsumed into Rash"i's commentary, refer to Ch. Lieberman, Ohel Rache"l I, New York, 1980, pp. 310-329.

Some object to the Agudat Shmuel's compilations. Some for their strange content, and for the sources, but especially for the question of the identity of Rabbeinu Ovadiah HaNavi. However, additional editions printed the likkutim (or some of them), and over the generations they were inserted into Rash"i's words without citation of the sources. Some gedolei Yisrael quoted the Agudat Shmuel, but there were also some gedolei Yisrael who objected to the additions, as Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Margaliot writes "The author's glosses printed in a small print with ... contain many fabricated words ... who permitted himself to insert these things into Rash"i's words.

R' Chaim Lieberman's article on the topic is included. Refer as well to the work Agudat Shmuel (!) on R' Shmuel Delogtash's sefarim by Rabbi Moshe Hillel, where he proves that the entire compilation is the author's fabrication.

Especially rare sefer. The above work Agudat Shmuel writes: "Note that there are almost no surviving copies of the first edition here, from which the special pocket edition was printed; there are only a few copies in the entire world."

The National Library does not have a complete copy. To the best of our knowledge, a complete set of this sefer has not been offered at auction for about twenty years.

Details of the volumes:

Vol. I: Nevi'im Rishonim. [4], 279, 290-379, 390-554. Lacking the title page and 5 leaves at the end. With the approbation leaves, and the author's preface with the tales of his travels (astonishing content!) the sefarim  he found, from which he compiled Agudat Shmuel.

Vol. II: Nevi'm Acharonim (Yeshayah-Yechezkel). 14-379, 390-549 leaf. Lacking the first 13 leaves.

Vol. III: Ketuvim (Tehillim, Mishlei, Iyov, Daniel). 480 leaf.

Vol. IV: Ezra (and Nechemiah), Trei Asar, (Divrei HaYamim). 346, [2] leaf. With the last two leaves added to only some of the copies, containing a Selichah and a Kinah.

Approximately 11 cm.

Overall fine-very fine condition. Four magnificent new leather bindings, with a matching slipcase.