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Mechilta. Daniel Bomberg Press. Venice 1545- Signature of the Gaon Rabbi Yedidya Shlomo Israel of Rhodes
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Mechilta. Daniel Bomberg Press. Venice 1545- Signature of the Gaon Rabbi Yedidya Shlomo Israel of Rhodes
Midrash of Chazal on Shmos, attributed to the Tanna Rabbi Yishmael (Mechilta D’Rabbi Yishmael).
Midrash Mechilta is one of the foundational works of Chazal. The Chafetz Chaim wrote in his introduction to Toras Kohanim that “Toras Kohanim on Vayikrah, and Mechilta and Sifri are the foundations of the Oral Torah…and they are the source of all the Mishnayos and Braisos.”
The Mechilta was first published in Constantinople in the year 1515. This edition has some textual differences from the Constantinople version. (See Mechilta, Meir Ish Shalom Edition. Vienna, 1870. Introduction page 12.)
Venice, 1545. Daniel Bomberg Press. Rare.
The Gaon Rabbi Yedidya Shlomo Israel of Rhodes (d. 1831), was a leading Torah scholar of his times, son of Rabbi Eliyahu Israel Rabbi of Rhodes and Alexandria (Egypt). He edited and published his father's books in Livorno, where he met the Chida and befriended him (the Chida presented him with one of his Seforim). He succeeded his father in the rabbinate of Alexandria, were he served until his passing. In Alexandria, he maintained a library of hundreds of books and manuscripts.
