Editing Ein Yaakov (section)

== Commentaries ==
Dozens of commentaries on the ''Ein Yaakov'' have been composed, and some editions contain 20 or more. These are some of the most notable commentaries:
* ''HaKotev'' (before 1516): Ibn Habib's own commentary. In the ''edition princeps'' his comments are marked by א"ה, "so says the author," and later editions call it ''HaKotev'', "the author".
* ''Hiddushei Aggadot'' (before 1631): A work by [[Samuel Eidels]] which is often treated as a commentary to the Talmud, but Eidels writes in the introduction that his aim is "to compose a commentary to all the tales in the ''Ein Yaakov''".
* ''Beit Yehuda'' (1634-6<ref>On title page, "[<nowiki/>[[Anno Mundi|AM]] 5]395," introduction signed "[[Adar]] [5]394," at the back "[[Tishrei]] [5]396". In his autobiography da Modena recalls that the printing of the work lasted from Adar 5394 to [[Cheshvan]] 5395 (March 1634-November 1635) because his printer was shut down for six months and then his grandson, who had been setting the type, was arrested by the Venetian authorities and imprisoned for 66 days. Venetian law then forbade Jews from printing books. In the printed errata at the back of the book (f. 48b) we read "If there are many errors in the first two sections of this book, the reader should not wonder, but rather fill in the gaps from context. For aside from the many difficulties which occurred in the printing, most-all of the type was set by a young and ignorant boy. I, Isaac of the Levites, son of Jacob [[Z"L]], son of the daughter of the author of this work, am 14 years old today." See Benjamin Ravid, “The Prohibition Against Jewish Printing and Publishing in Venice and the Difficulties of Leone Modena,” in Isadore Twersky, ed., ''Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature'' (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Center for Jewish Studies, 1979), 135-153.</ref>): [[Leon of Modena|Leon da Modena]]'s commentary, which appeared in all editions between 1684 and 1916.<ref name="jewishencyclopedia" />  Later editions call it ''HaBoneh''. This is one of his most mature works, according to [[Ellis Rivkin]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rivkin |first=Ellis |date=1948 |title=Leon da Modena and the "Kol Sakhal": III. Leon da Modena (Continued) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1453155 |journal=The Jewish Quarterly Review |volume=38 |issue=4 |pages=369–408 |doi=10.2307/1453155 |issn=0021-6682}}</ref> Da Modena also compiled an index to the ''Ein Yaakov'', titled ''Beit Lehem Yehuda''.
* ''Meor Einayim'' (1643): [[Josiah ben Joseph Pinto|Josiah Pinto]]'s commentary.
* (Before 1667): Commentary of {{Interlanguage link|Nathan Shapira of Jerusalem|he|נתן שפירא הירושלמי}}, preserved MS Columbia X 893 L 973 and BL Add. MS 27020.
* ''Asaf HaMazkir'' (before 1672): A bibliographic work by Zechariah ben Ephraim Porto of Urbino. Included in back of Amsterdam, 1724.
* ''Kotnot Or'' (1683): Commentary of {{Interlanguage|Isaac Meir Teomim-Frankel|he|יצחק מאיר תאומים-פרנקל}}.
* ''Iyyun Yaakov'' (1729): [[Jacob Reischer]]'s.
* ''Yashresh Yaakov'' (1729): [[Hayyim ben Jacob Abulafia|Hayyim Abulafia]]'s.
* ''Shevut Yaakov'' (1734): An expanded commentary by [[Hayyim ben Jacob Abulafia|Hayyim Abulafia]].
* (before 1746): [[Moshe Chaim Luzzatto]] supposedly composed a commentary, now lost.<ref name=":0">Lehman, M. S. (1993). ''A talmudic anthology of aggada: Examining the "ein yaakov".''</ref>
* ''Petah Einayim'' (1790): [[Chaim Yosef David Azulai]]'s.
* ''Ein Avraham'' (1848): [[Abraham ben Aryeh Loeb Schick]]'s.
* ''Yad Yosef, Etz Yosef, Anaf Yosef'' (before 1867): [[Enoch Zundel ben Joseph]]'s three commentaries.
* ''Or haChayyim'' (1883): Commentary by Mordecai Jaffe of [[Plungė]] (1814-1883) to the [[Jerusalem|Yerushalmi]] sections, compiled largely from the ''[[Korban Ha-Edah]]'' and the ''[[Pnei Moshe]]''. First printed in Vilna, 1883.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Ḥabib |first=Jacob ben Solomon Ibn |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BM4_AAAAYAAJ |title=עין יעקב: עם כל המפרשים הנקובים בשער השני |date=1883 |publisher=ha-Almanah ṿeha-aḥim Rom |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Sokolow |first=Nahum |author-link=Nahum Sokolow |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BGApAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA135 |title=האסיף: לתקופת השנה |date=1884 |publisher=בדפוס יצחק גאלדמאן |pages=135 |language=he |chapter=יקרא דשכבי}}</ref>
* ''[[Ein Ayah|Ein Ayyah]]'' (1883-1935): A lengthy commentary by [[Abraham Isaac Kook]], published in 4 volumes.