"AT THE END OF FIVE THOUSAND AND SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS TO THE CREATION OF THE WORLD (5700 – 1940), PERHAPS A LITTLE BEFORE OR A LITTLE AFTERWARDS, OUR TIME WILL COME, WITH THE HELP OF G-D, SO THAT BNEI YISRAEL MAY DWELL IN THEIR LAND."
Astounding Prediction of Rabbi Don Yosef Ibn Yichye Regarding the Return of Jews to Eretz Yisrael and Their Final Salvation, Bologna 1538
Commentary on Tehillim, Mishlei, Iyov, Daniel, Divrei Hayamim and the Five Megillos from Chacham Don Yosef ben David Ibn Yichye of Bologna.
This beautiful copy is an only edition, published in Bologna, 1538.
Rabbi Don Yosef dealt with calculations of the future, such as that of the coming redemption. The precise wording of his calculations, in light of the circumstances that followed, are remarkably accurate.
In his commentary on the Book of Daniel he writes:
"At the end of five thousand and seven hundred years to the creation of the world, perhaps a little before or a little afterwards, our time will come, with the help of G-d, so that Bnei Yisrael may dwell in their land three hundred years from the sixth millennium, so that the it will be revealed before all that the truth is with them, and they will enjoy of this world in body and soul, because they were punished with the burden of the Exile of Nations, in body and soul."
In his introduction, Rabbi Don Yosef recounts how his mother fled Portugal to Italy while expectant with him in an attempt to flee apostasy. Upon her arrival in Pisa, Italy, she jumped off a roof in order to protect her modesty, and miraculously, both she and her unborn child survived. She then made her way to Florence where she gave birth to Rabbi Don Yosef in 1495. After some time, they moved near Bologna where Rabbi Don Yosef passed away in 1539. He was the father of Rabbi Gedalia ibn Yichye, author of Shalsheles HaKabbalah.
Walmedona-Luntzer collection
Complete | 40, 121 leaves [should read: 122] | 28 cm | Walmedona-Luntzer collection | Quality paper | Leather binding | Slight restorations on several margins | Excellent condition | Rare
