A kabbalistic commentary on the Torah and the rest of Tanach authored by a student of the Gra, Rabbi Zvi Hirsch of Smiatitz. Margaliot HaTorah has remazim and tzerufim using start and end letters in the Zohar and the writings of the Ari.
The publishing note on the title page is erroneous, it gives an improper value which led (justifiably) various bibliographers such as Winograd to elide one taf and thus reach the year of printing as 1807. The National Library, Bar-Ilan, and Tel Aviv University catalogue this book
in the rare books section. [1], 18, 40, 29, 16, 19-28, 27-28, 27-65, 10 leaves. Errors in the pagination, at the end of the book is
an exceptional apology from the printer for the proliferation of separate paginations: “it should not excite the reader that we did not present the pages in a (simple) order from start to finish because the book was difficult for us and the work of printing was difficult…”.
Some is printed on light-blue paper, at the end are a few bits of worming damage in a group of pages, stains, otherwise overall good condition.
Rabbi Zvi Hirsch of Smiatitz was a rabbi of Smiatitz and a kabbalist, who served for a number of years under his rabbi, the Gra, and was known as “HaChassid.” In addition to this work he published the Margaliot HaTorah on the Torah from likkutim and the writings of the Ari, and at least part of that was printed during his rabbi’s (the Gra’s) lifetime. He died either in 1814 or 1819, and the Agudat Ezov eulogized him in the book by that name.
