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October 21, 2026

A Rare Manuscript of a Medieval Rabbinic Commentary Discovered

Verifying the text of Nachmanides’s biblical exegesis.

Rabbi Moses Nachmanides (1194–1270), known to Jews by the acronym Ramban, was a leading Spanish scholar whose commentaries on the Pentateuch and Talmud place him in the rabbinic pantheon. The Mizrahi Bookstore describes the importance of a newly recovered medieval manuscript of his Torah commentary which is going up for auction, and notes that the sustained influence of this work

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