A vintage hardcover book in Hebrew, a reprint of the first edition of Lechem Shamayim, a commentary on the Mishnah, with a treatise in two parts, on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Beit haBechirah, by Jacob Emden. The book was first published in Wandsbek in 1733. Rabbi Yaakov Emden, or Jacob Emden, 1697 to 1776, was a leading German rabbi and talmudist. Antiquarian Librarian Books Catalogs Albums For Collectors, Judaica.