Bidspirit auction | EMDEN, YA’AKOV. Derush Pesach Gadol

EMDEN, YA’AKOV. Derush Pesach Gadol [Passover sermon]. FIRST EDITION. ff. 18. Lightly foxed. Modern calf-backed boards. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Altona 108. Altona: (self-published) 1775 The discourse here pivots on the discussion in Talmud Bavli, Pesachim f. 66a, concerning the permissibility of offering the Paschal lamb on the Sabbath, a law which confounded the B’nei Bathyra and awaited Hillel’s arrival from Babylonia to be resolved.