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#	Sefer - ספר	Author - מחבר	Publication - דפוס
26	Sefer HaNefesh - ספר הנפש	R' Shem Tov Ben Yosef Falaquera - ר' שם טוב בן יוסף פלקירא	Warsaw, 1924 - ורשה, תרפ"ד
	Sefer HaNefesh is a treatise on the human soul, its parts and how they function, and in genral on human psychology by R' Shem Tov Ben Yosef Falaquera.
27	Iggeres HaVikuach - אגרת הויכוח	R' Shem Tov Ben Yosef Falaquera - ר' שם טוב בן יוסף פלקירא	Vienna, 1875 - ווינא, תרל"ה
	Iggeres HaVikuach is a debate, written by R' Shem Tov Ben Yosef Falaquera in a poetic form, between a person who is a Torah scholar and a philosopher and a person who is a Torah Scholar who opposes philosophy. This sefer was written as a defense of the Rambam against those who opposed him because of his Aristotelian views. It shows the necessity of the study of philosophy in order to truly understand the Torah.
28	Reishis Chachma - ראשית חכמה	R' Shem Tov Ben Yosef Falaquera - ר' שם טוב בן יוסף פלקירא	Berlin, 1902 - ברלין, תרס"ב
	Reishis Chachma is an introduction to the study of the sciences, in three parts, written by R' Shem Tov Ben Yosef Falaquera, and is a collection of the writings of other philosophers. This edition includes an introduction in German, by Moritz David, printed at the end of the book.
29	Sefer HaMevakesh - ספר המבקש	R' Shem Tov Ben Yosef Falaquera - ר' שם טוב בן יוסף פלקירא	Haague, 1778 - האג, תקל"ח
	Sefer HaMevakesh is a dialog, written by R' Shem Tov Ben Yosef Falaquera and based on his earlier work Reishis Chachma, between a person who is seeking knowledge in different disciplines with the prepresentatives of those disciplines. In this work a young student debates with people of various types in order to gain clarification of the road he must take. Following the advice of a philosophically trained scholar, he studies mathematics, astronomy, music, logic, natural science and metaphysics. This sefer shows the relevance of all of the above mentioned sciences to Torah. This is the first edition of this sefer and it contains many haskamos of the Gedolim of the end of the 18th century, including the Chida.
30	Yerushalmi Shekalim with the Perushim of R' Meshulam and a Student of R' Shmuel Bar Shneur - ירושלמי שקלים אם פירושי ר' משולם ותלמידו של ר' שמואל בר' שניאור	R' Meshulam - ר' משולם Student of R' Shmuel Bar Shneur - תלמידו של ר' שמואל בר' שניאור	New York, 1954 - ניו יורק, תשי"ד
	This is the first publication of two great commentaries on Yerushalmi Masechta Shekalim by Rabeinu Meshulam, and a Student of Rabeinu Shmuel Bar Shneur, found in the only existing manuscript in the Bodlean Library in Oxford. These great Rishonim were both from the Baalei Tosafos. This edition contains the notes and introduction of Avraham Sofer, the great-grandson of the Chasam Sofer.
31	Drashos Rebbi Yehoshua Ibn Shuab - דרשות רבי יהושע אבן שועיב	Rebbi Yehoshua Ibn Shuab - רבי יהושע אבן שועיב	Cracow, 1573 - קראקא, של"ג
	Commentary on the Torah and Yamim Tovim by one of the great Rishonim, student of the Rashba, Rebbi Yehoshua Ibn Shuab. This is the first edition of this sefer and it comes with a very extensive introduction about Rebbi Yehoshua Ibn Shuab and his sefer, from the reprinter, Shraga Abramson.
32	Yerushalmi Beitzah with the Peirush of the Baal Sefer Chareidim - ירושלמי ביצה אם פירוש בעל ספר חרדים	R' Elazar Azkari - ר' אלעזר אזכרי	New York, 1967 - ניו יורק, תשכ"ז
	This is the first publication of the commentary on Yerushlami Masechta Beitzah by the Rabeinu Elazar Azkari, the author of the famous Sefer Chareidim. His commentary on Yerushlami Masechta Berachos has been published a long time ago with most editions of Yerushlami, but the manuscript of the Beitzah commentary has been relatively recently found in a single existing manuscript. This edition comes with a very extensive introduction and notes by Yisroel Parnatzus.
33	Sadeh Yehoshua al Yerushalmi Zerayim - שדה יהושע על ירושלמי זרעים	R' Yehoshua Benveniste - ר' יהושע בנבנשתי	Constantinople, 1662 - קושטאנטינא, תכ"ב
	Sefer Sadeh Yehoshua is a commentary on the halachic portions of Yerushalmi, written by Rabeinu Yehoshua Benveniste who was a Rav in Turkey, a student of the Maharit and the brother of Rabeinu Chayim Benveniste, the author of the Keneses HaGedolah on the Shulchan Aruch. Th text of the Yerushalmi printed inthis edition specifically omits all of the aggadic portions of the gemora, because those were already covered in Sefer Yafeh Mareh written by Rabeinu Shmuel Yafeh, in which the halachic portions were ommited, and together Sadeh Yehoshua and Yefeh Mareh cover the whole Yerushalmi. The commentary on Zerayim covers masechtos Berachos, Peah, Arla, and Bikurim. This is the first edition of this sefer published in Constantinople, in 1662, during the life time of the author.
34	Agados Yerushalmi al Yerushalmi Zerayim - אגדות ירושלמי על ירושלמי זרעים	R' Shmuel Yafeh - ר' שמואל יפה R' Shimon MiPintchov - ר' שמעון מפינטשוב	Warsaw, 1898 - ווארשא, תרנ"ח
	Sefer Agados Yerushalmi covers the agadic portions for all of the seder Zerayim and contains the commentaries Yafeh Mareh by Rabeinu Shmuel Yafeh, the author of Yafeh Toar on Midrash Rabah, and Kevod Chachamim of Rav Shimon MiPintchov. There is also a short commentary made by the editor which is a likut from the later meforshim.
35	Chidushei HaRashbatz al Masechtos Rosh HaShana VeKinim - חידושי הרשב"ץ על מסכתות ראש השנה וקינים	Rashbatz - רשב"ץ	Livorno, 1745 - ליוורנו, תק"ה
	The commentary of the Rashbatz - Rabeinu Shimon Ben Tzemach Duran, the author of Sefer HaTashbatz, on Masechtos Rosh HaShana and Kinim.
36	Yavin Shmua - יבין שמועה Maamar Chametz - מאמר חמץ Peirush HaHagadah - פירוש ההגדה Tiferes Yisroel - תפארת ישראל Peirush Ezehu Mekoman uBeraisa DeRabi Yishmael - פירוש איזהו מקומן וברייתא דר' ישמעאל Tikkun Sofrim - תקון סופרים	Rashbatz - רשב"ץ Rashbash - רשב"ש	Livorno, 1744 - ליוורנו, תק"ד
	This sefer contains the following seforim written by the Rashbatz: 1) Yavin Shmua - on the halachos of shchita and treifus. 2) Mamar Chametz - on the halachos of matza and chametz 3) Peirush HaHagadah - commentary on the Hagadah Shel Pesach 4) Tiferes Yisroel - on the halachos of kiddush hachodesh and the calendar 5) Peirush Ezehu Mekoman uBeraisa DeRabi Yishmael - commentary on Mishnayos Perek Eizehu Mekoman and the Beraisa of Rabi Yishmael that discusses the 13 middos that the Torah is learned by. It also contains one sefer by the Rashbash, the son of the Rashbatz, called Tikkun Sofrim, on laws of shtaros and contracts.
37	Rav Poalim - רב פעלים	R' Yitzchak Ibn Latif - ר' יצחק אבן לטיף	Lemberg, 1885 - למברג, תרמ"ה
	Rav Poalim is a philosophical work in the NeoPlatonic school, by one of the great Rishonim, Rabeinu Yitzchak ben Avraham Ibn Latif, who was a philosopher and a mekubal in the 13th century at the same time as the Ramban, in Spain. This edition comes with notes and commentary by Dr. Shmuel Schoenblum. Besides this work, this edition contains two letters from his son, Rabeinu Moshe Ben Yitzchak Ibn Latif, and five essays by Dr. Shmuel Schoenblum on the concepts of the Human Soul, Karbanos, Commandments, Straightness of Man, and Peace. This is the first and only edition of these seforim.
38	Sefer HaYesodos - ספר היסודות	R' Yitzchak HaYisraeli - ר' יצחק הישראלי	Derahavitch, 1900 - דראהאביטש, תר"ס
	Rabeinu Yitzchak Bar Shlomo HaYisraeli lived in the 9th century in Egypt at the same time as Rav Saadiah Gaon and was one of his students and correspondents. His Sefer HaYesodos was originally written in Arabic and then translated into Hebrew by Rabeinu Avraham Bar Shmuel HaLevi Chisdai. It is a philosophical work on the basic elements using the NeoPlatonic philosophy similar to Rabeinu Shlomo Ibn Gabirol. This edition contain notes and a very long introduction in German, by Dr. Shlomo Fried and is the only existing edition of this sefer.
39	Pesach HaDaas - פתח הדעת	R' Tzvi Hirsch Kalisher - ר' צבי הירש קאלישער	Warsaw, 1913 - ווארשא, תרע"ג
	Rav Tzvi Hirsch Kalischer was a Rav in in the German town of Thorn. He was a student of R' Yakov MeLissa and R' Akiva Eiger and a very strong supporter of settlement and colonization of Eretz Yisrael. He was also a great philosopher and Sefer Pesach HaDaas is one of his works on philosophy.
40	Magen Avos - מגן אבות	Rashbatz - רשב"ץ	Livorno, 1785 - ליוורנו, תקמ"ה
	Magen Avos is the main philosophical work of Rabeinu Shimon Ben Tzemach Duran. It covers human and animal physiology and pathology, psychology, science, phonology, astrology, some kabbalah, as well as many other subjects and has the character of an encyclopedic work. It consists of three parts. The forth chapter of the first part of this sefer contains many polemics against Christianity and Islam and has been printed separately under the title of Keshes uMagen.
41	Shailos uTeshuvos HaRashbash - שו"ת הרשב"ש	Rashbash - רשב"ש	Livorno, 1742 - ליוורנו, תק"ב
	This is the first edition of the Shailos and Teshuvos of Rabeinu Shlomo Ben Shimon Duran, the son of the Rashbatz.
42	Maamar Yikavu HaMayim - מאמר יקוו המים	R' Shmuel Ibn Tibbon - ר' שמואל אבן תבון	Pressburg, 1837 - פרעסבורג, תקצ"ז
	Maamar Yikavu HaMayim is a philosophical and a scientific work on water, bodies of water and a commentary on the meaning of many pesukim in Tanach and statements in the Gemora that discuss water, specifically the water the covered all of the Earth during the time of creation. It is written by the great Rabeinu Shmuel Ibn Tibbon, the translator of the Rambam's Moreh Nevuchim.
43	Chemdas Yamim, Vol. 1 - חמדת ימים, חלק א		Constantinople, 1735 - קושטא, תצ"ה
44	Chemdas Yamim, Vol. 2 - חמדת ימים, חלק ב		Constantinople, 1735 - קושטא, תצ"ה
45	Chemdas Yamim, Vol. 3 - חמדת ימים, חלק ג		Constantinople, 1735 - קושטא, תצ"ה
46	Chemdas Yamim, Vol. 4 - חמדת ימים, חלק ד		Constantinople, 1735 - קושטא, תצ"ה
	Chemdas Yamim is an anonymous kabbalistic work written in the late 17th, early 18th centuries on the subjects of Shabbos and the Yamim Tovim. It's a very multifaceted work that discusses halachah, mussar, kabbalah, customs of the Arizal, prayer, and many other subjects. This sefer is one of the most controversial seforim of the past three centuries because from its original publication it was accused, mainly ba Rav Yakov Emden, of being authored by a Shabatean. The sefer is a major source of many kabbalistic minhagim that are practised by many Jews today, especially Chasidim and Sefardim. In the past few decades it had a revival, because it is the primary source of the famous Tu BeShevat Seder (see Vol. 2, Shovevim Ch. 3, p. 108-110), which has become very popular among many various groups of Jews. This work was originally published and edited in 1732 by the great Rabeinu Yakov Ben Yom Tov Algazi, the father of the Maharit Algazi, a friend of the Chida, the Rosh Yeshiva of Beit El in Yerushalayim and one of the great mekubalim of his time, which also greatly attributed to its credibility.
47	Bechinas HaDas - בחינת הדת	R' Eliyahu Delmedigo - ר' אליהו דיל מדיגו	Vienna, 1833 - ווינא, תקצ"ג
	Sefer Bechinas HaDas is a discussion of the relationship between religion and philosophy, written by one of the late Rishonim, Rabeinu Eliyahu Delmedigo, from Italy. The sefer comes with the peirush of Rav Yitzchok Reggio, one of the Rabbanim in Italy in the early 1800s. Also, printed in the back of sefer are various essays by Rav Yitzchok Reggio that prove the divinity of the Torah and argue against many Reform polemics of his time that question the basic principles of Judaism, such as for example why can't Shabbos be moved to Sunday. This is the second edition of this sefer, printed in Vienna in 1833.
48	Moreh Nevuchim, Vol. 1 - מורה נבוכים, חלק א	Rambam - רמב"ם	Vienna, 1828 - ווינא, תקפ"ח
49	Moreh Nevuchim, Vol. 2 - מורה נבוכים, חלק ב	Rambam - רמב"ם	Vienna, 1828 - ווינא, תקפ"ח
50	Moreh Nevuchim, Vol. 3 - מורה נבוכים, חלק ג	Rambam - רמב"ם	Vienna, 1828 - ווינא, תקפ"ח
This excellent edition of the Rambam's famous philosophical work, the Moreh Nevuchim, known in English as The Guide for the Purplexed, with the Hebrew translation from theoriginal arabic by Rabeinu Shmuel Ibn Tibbon, comes with many commentaries. The first volume that contains the first part of the Moreh Nevuchim comes with the perushim of Rabeinu Moshe Narboni, one of the great Rishonim, and Givas HaMoreh, by Solomon Maimon, one of the modern time philosophers of the late 18th century, from Germany, who was considered by many Jews a heretic, primarily for trying to show that Kabbalah is based on philosophy. The second and third volumes that contain the second and the third parts of the Moreh Nevuchim, come with a commentary by Yitzhak HaLevi Satanov.

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