First edition! 'Michlol Yofi' on Meggilat Kohelet, hidden and revealed commentaries, by Rabbi Eliyahu Loans Baal ...

First edition! 'Michlol Yofi' on Meggilat Kohelet, hidden and revealed commentaries, by Rabbi Eliyahu Loans Baal Shem. Amsterdam 1695.

Sefer 'Michlol Yofi', commentary on Kohelet, hidden and revealed, by the Holy Rabbi Eliyahu Ashkenazi 'Baal Shem' abd and ram of the Worms community, son of Rabbi Moshe Loans. Amsterdam 1695. First edition.

 

[1], 33 pages, 18 cm. Ownership signature 'אהרן ליב' (Aharon Leib), and additional signature of: 'זרח בהקדוש מוהר"ר ר' אהרן זלה"ה ש"ץ דק"ק ווילום פאלוס ודקאוונא' (Zarach BeHakadosh mohr"r R' Aharon zlh"h Shatz Dk"k Vilijampole and from Kovna)

Rabbi Eliyahu ben Rabbi Moshe ben Rabbi Yosef [Yoselmann] Loans Ashkenazi (1564-1636), disciple of the Maharal of Prague, Rav of Fulda, Hanau, and friedberg, and later Rosh Yeshiva and Rav in Worms . As he was a Rav who  accepted to write 'kamayot' (amulets) he was called Rabbi Eliyahu "Baal Shem". Was a prolific author, edited and explained manuscripts revealed and concealed, and wrote poems and lectures. 

Community of Vilijampole,   built in the ruins of the Kaunas (Kovna) community. In the year 1761, Just a few years after the first deportation of the Jews of Kaunas, the townspeople of Kaunas befell the Jews of the city with the initiative of the Mayor of the city. They brutally beat up the Jews, burned down their homes and their Beit HaKnesset and deported them from the city. The Jewish refugees found refuge in the nearby village of Vilijampole. On the other side of the Vilija, upon their arrival the Jews started to build wooden houses in the woods, and laid the foundation of the city.

Renewed cover, aging stains, moth holes, taped and rehabilitated title page and first few pages. Fair condition.