Commentary on the Sifre, a halakhic midrash to the books of Numbers and Deuteronomy. R. Hillel compares portions of the Sifre with parallel passages in the Talmud, translating the difficult words i... Show moreCommentary on the Sifre, a halakhic midrash to the books of Numbers and Deuteronomy. R. Hillel compares portions of the Sifre with parallel passages in the Talmud, translating the difficult words into Greek. Chapters 1-30 are missing. Hillel's commentary on chaps. 31-61 is followed by a second anonymous commentary. Written in a Byzantine semi-cursive script in brown ink; bound in beige buckram. Scribe: Mordekhai ben Yosef ben Adreʻi. ברוך רחמנא דסייע לעבידה בר אמיתיה להשלים זה הספר יום ג׳ בשבת י״א לחדש ניסן המכובד שנת השמ״ז ליצירה [1587] אני הכותב ... מרדכי בן יוסף בן אדרעי -- Colophon. Hillel ben Eliakim was a Greek Talmudic scholar best known for his commentaries on the tannaitic midrashim. This manuscript was the basis for the editio princeps of 1948. There are 4 other known extant manuscripts of Hillel's commentary on the Sifre. Physical manuscript previously owned by Malkiel; Isaac Sabani of Adrianople; Hayim ben Moshe Picciotto; David Solomon Sassoon. Show less