RARE commentary on a sub-section of the Talmudic minor tractate `Derech Erez Zuta`, focusing for the first time in great detail on all its aspects, such as textual, philological, literary, historical, etc. The author, Daniel Sperber, is an eminent Israeli academic and Modern Orthodox rabbi, professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and one of the leading authorities in Talmudic studies, as well as history of Jewish customs, Jewish art history, Jewish education, and classical philology. 245x175mm. 190 pages. Black cloth Hardcover with dust-jacket. Gilt spine. Jacket rubbed. Jacket edges and corners slightly wrinkled. Cover corners and fore edge slightly bumped. Spine edges slightly bumped. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare and pioneering commentary on a Talmudic tractate, of immense interest to students of Rabbinical literature, is otherwise in very good condition.