RABBINIC COMMENTARY] [Chlomo Ben Avraham ALGAZI], Lehem Setarim. Strasbourg, Jonas Lorenz, 1777. In-4, half-leather binding with corners, small wormholes on last two leaves, last leaf reinforced. Here is the description of the book and its author in the request made by the Jews to the authorities for permission to print it: "The book Lechem Starim is a commentary on a part of the Talmud called Avoda Sara, which deals with the Rits Divine Service, Customs, Morals and Laws of the ancient Pagans and Idolaters, and exhorts not to use the same; there are very few authors who have written on this Matter or at least their works have not been printed. The said author has explained the most difficult and critical points of this said Part of the Talmud, so that those who wish to study it cannot do without this said Book Lechem Starim, whose author is Raby Sallomon Algazi. His name suggests that his parents lived among the Arabs. He was born in Magnesia, called Montagna by the Europeans, near Bursia in Natolia, where he was later Rabbi; since then he has been called to Smirne to be Rabbi, where he found himself when the famous impostor Sabataï Zebi arrived, which caused him much dispute and controversy. In 1673, he settled in Jerusalem, where he wrote a few more books and died at a ripe old age. Among the first Hebrew books printed in Strasbourg. Includes an approval by the Noda Biyehouda, rabbi of Prague, an approval by the head of the rabbinical court of Mutzig, the rabbi of Bouxwiller and Binyamin of Scherwiller. Keywords: judaica, jew, jewish, hebrew, rabbis, jewish, torah, hebrew, hebraica, judaism, synagogue, zionism, pessah, pessach, haggada, haggadah, hagada, hagadah, passover, menora, menorah, hannuka, hannuca, hannucca, hanouccah, torah, juden, israélite, Israël, antisemitism, antisémitisme, dreyfus, meguila, sepharade, sefarad, ketouba