Gedi Mekulas, commentary to the Chad Gadya piyyut from the Passover Haggadah, by R. Avraham Aberle of Norden, Ostfriesland (East Frisia). [Altona, 1770].
This copy appears to have belonged to the author, who added handwritten glosses and emendations in several places. At the end of the preface, correction of the numerical value of his name Avraham. In several places, corrections of mistakes and printing errors. At the end of the commentary to VeAta Maya, in a passage relating to the non-Jewish nations and Christianity, he writes regretfully of the passage he was compelled to omit in print: "Here, a precious jewel was lost in print, for fear of the oppressor". He is presumably referring to the Christian censorship which did not allow him to print anything derogatory about the non-Jews or Christianity.
In the final leaf, the author relates to the polemic surrounding the authorship of the Zohar, and he tries to resolve their arguments. This book may be the author's response to the book Mitpachat Sefarim by R. Yaakov Emden (who lived at that time in Altona, and printed the book in his home in 1766).
32 pages. 17 cm. Good condition. Stains and light wear. Old leather binding.
Yaari 164; Otzar HaHaggadot 254.