Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Bechorot – with the Rashi and Tosafot commentaries, Piskei Tosafot and Rabbenu Asher. Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1522. First edition.
Volume from the first Talmud edition printed by Daniel Bomberg in Venice. This is the first edition comprising the entire Babylonian Talmud. This famous edition (The Venice Talmud) served as prototype for all future Talmud editions. The text of the Talmud was then established for all times, as well as the page layout and pagination used until this day.
Ownership inscriptions and handwritten emendations. Inscription in Sephardic script on title page, documenting the start of the study of this tractate in 1640: "We began the Gemara of Bechorot on the 2nd day of Chanukah 1640". Ownership inscriptions around the initial word on leaf 2, deleted with ink.
Complete copy, including title page. 69 leaves. 8 gatherings of 8 leaves each, ninth gathering – 5 leaves. 33.5 cm. Very good condition. Stains, several ink stains. Title page professionally restored. Lower corners cut diagonally. New binding.
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Segulot of Studying Tractate Bechorot
R. Chaim Kanievsky is wont to say that the study of Tractate Bechorot, which deals with defects, is a segulah for recovery.
R. Yoshiyahu Pinto attests that studying Tractate Bechorot is considered like fasting (Divrei Yoshiyahu, Levav Yamim, p. 183).
