Copy of Rabbi Elazar Menachem Mendel of Lelov- Sefer Tziyoni, Cremona, 1560

Copy of Rabbi Elazar Menachem Mendel of Lelov- Sefer Tziyoni, Cremona, 1560

Sefer Tziyoni, commentary on the Torah, Rabbi Menachem Tziyoni son of Rabbi Meir of Speyer. Cremona, 1560. Vincenzo Conti printing press.

Title page & page 36 with handstamps of the Holy Rebbe  Elazar Menachem Mendel of Lelov the son of the Holy Rebbe Rabbi Moshe of Lelov.

Kabbalist Rabbi Menachem Tzion son of Meir author of Sefer Tziyoni, among rabbis of Ashkenaz between approx. 1340-1410. His son is Rabbi Zelikman Binga known for his book “Minhagei [customs] Maharaz Binga”. The first edition of his book was printed in Cremona in 1559, however in the conflagration of books in Cremona in month of Av during that year the Church burnt approx. one thousand copies of the book and only several copies of that edition remained.

In the summer of 1560 the printing press was reopened and due to the great demand for the book a new edition was printed containing the addition of many passages which were omitted from the 1559 edition. [See: M. Benayahu, Hebrew Press in Cremona, p. 101, according to testimony of apostate Sisto who ignited the fire, see: pp. 79-83 for differences between editions and photocopies of title pages and various leaves from both editions].

110 leaves.

Fair condition, holes & tapings affecting text, large tapings to final 2 pages, unbound.

The Holy Rebbe  the Tzaddik Rabbi Elazar Menachem Mendel of Lelov [1827-1883] the son of the Holy Rebbe Rabbi Moshe of Lelov and the son of the daughter of the Holy Rebbe HaYehudi HaKaddosh MiPshischa, a sublime Tzaddik and wonder-worker who was famed for his prayers and Avodas Hashem.

Once, when Rabbi Elazar Mendel's pious daughter travelled to Galicia, she met with the daughter of the holy Rebbe of Sanz who told her that she once heard her holy father saying: מיר זענען דאך אין הומעל, האבן מיר גיזעהן אז דעם שענסטן סדר אפגירעכט רבי אלעזר מענדל מירושלים [we ... have seen and realized that the most 'beautiful' Seder was conducted by Rebbe Elazar Mendel of Jerusalem].