Acharonim1687–1769Yavoriv; Galicia
Rabbi David Altschuler (the Metzudat David)
Biblical commentary
- Metzudat David
- Metzudat Zion
- Commentary on the Prophets and the Writings
- Plain sense
- Mikraot Gedolot
- The Radak
- Yavoriv
- Zhovkva
Biblical commentary
Making the Bible accessible to every student: the Metzudat David gathers the commentaries of the Rishonim in simple, clear Hebrew, so that scholars save precious time spent studying them and ordinary Jews understand the Bible according to its plain sense. The commentary won wide approval because it is clear and understandable to all, and it was printed in almost every edition of the Mikraot Gedolot.
A biblical commentator of the Altschuler family, born in Yavoriv in Galicia, where he is recorded as a judge or rabbi. To make the Bible accessible even to teachers of small children, he wrote Metzudat David, a simple and clear commentary on the Bible (except the scrolls of Ruth, Lamentations and Esther) gathered from the commentaries of the Rishonim, and in 1753 he printed in Zhovkva his commentary on Job, Proverbs and Psalms. His son, Rabbi Yechiel Hillel, completed the commentary and printed it.
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