Book of Jasher (Sefer haYashar) 1

It was found and came to us today that when the holy city of Jerusalem was destroyed by the evil Titus and all the leaders of the soldiers went in to rob the booty and scorn a hawk there was a governor there one of Titus' governors and his name was Sideros and he went in and asked and found a house in Jerusalem that was very large and spacious and he took all the scorn and booty that he found there and when he wanted to leave the house he looked at the wall. And he saw with an eye his mind as an eye hidden in the wall. And he will hide the wall and the building and will find one house full of many books, Torah, prophets and scriptures and also books from the kings of Israel and the kings of nations and many other books for Israel. And the books of the correct and revised Mishnah as well as many scrolls are placed there. And he will find a great deal of wine from all kinds of food. And he found an old man sitting there and he was reading these books. And the ruler saw the great sight and was greatly astonished. And he said to the old man why are you sitting in this place alone and there is no one standing over you. And his old yeshiva is several days and years and times that I know in the destruction of Jerusalem sometimes years. And I built this house and I made a portico for it and I brought these books with me to hang in them and I brought with me a means of living and I said maybe I will have a soul to spoil.

And God gave that old man grace and mercy in the eyes of that ruler and they took us out of there with honor with all his books and they went from there from city to city and from country to country until they reached the country of Seville. And the ruler will find that that old man knows all wisdom and knowledge and science. And seeing him like this, they carried him and respected him, and he was always in his house, and they taught him all wisdom, and they built a great house for them with their wisdom, outside of Shelia, and they invented all those books there. And that house is still in the path until this day and there will be written all the things that will be in the kings of the world until the coming of our Messiah.

And it came to pass, when we were shaken, the name was shaken by the kings of Edom from city to city and from country to country in evil and bitterness. And this book called Adam's History came to us with many books because they came from that house from Seville and will come later to our city, the city of Naples, which is under the hand of the King of Spain, Iria. And when we saw these books, for they are books of all wisdom, we put the inclination of our soul in them to print them with an iron pen and lead as many books as come to our hands. And this book is the best and greatest of all. And behold, twelve formulas came to our hands from this book and we will investigate them, and here they are all one formula, and there is no change between them, no addition, no subtraction, no letters, no strange boxes or different things, because they are all equal and in one formula. And because we saw many benefits in this book. We instilled in him the purpose. That's why we set our heart on printing it. And we find it written that this is the book called the book of truth.

And we found that the reason why this book is called the honest book is that all its words are in order as they were in the world in the introduction and in the delay. You will not find in this book that things that came before or things that came before will be left behind, but each and every thing was written in its place and time. And for this you will find in all his words that he will say that so-and-so died, so-and-so died, and so-and-so lived, and so on, and so on, and for this they read the Book of the Righteous. And it is true that the habit that every person has to happen to him is the book of Talod Adam. And the reason is because in what he started they called him. But the main part of his name is the Book of Truth from the reasons and evidence we have said and here we find that this book is today in the hand of the pigeons copied Corin lo Livros di loche Diritus also found in the Romans Corin lo di Lash Palabras di loche Duash di Pathos di loche Grandish Girash Dispois Morir Yehoshua and is also found today in the hands of the kings of Edom Corin lo isti Livro di Nascimento di Adam.

And it is written in the book of the Hasmoneans that have come down to us that in the days of Ptolemy, the king of Egypt, he ordered his servants to go and collect all the books of religion and all the books of the chronicles that could be found in the world in order to be wise from them and to examine and investigate the affairs of the world from them and to compile a book from them on all the laws of things and religion and law on all the needs of the world to make a judgment on its ignorance. And they went and collected for him nine hundred and five and sixty books, and he brought them to him and told them to go and ask for a thousand books to be completed, and they did the same. Then the leaders of Israel stood before him and said, "Our Lord, the king, why bother with all this? He sent to Jerusalem to the Jews, and they will bring him the book of their Torah, which was written for them according to Yah by the hand of their prophets, and from which you can be wise and judge from it any law and anything you wish. Because they said we cannot give a Torah book to a foreigner.

And when this book came to Ptolemy, he read it and straightened his eyes very much and studied it with his wisdom and discernment and found in it what he wanted and left all the books that he had collected and blessed whoever advised him of this thing. After a few days, the renegades of Israel felt this because Israel did not send the book of the Torah to the king and came and said to him, our lord the king mocked you. Until he sent them another time to send him the Sefer Torah. And we were afraid that they would mock him further and we would argue with them and he sent seventy elders among them to come to him and he sat them down in seventy houses to write each and every one of them a book of the Torah so that no change could be found and the Holy Spirit ministered over them and they wrote seventy books for him and the seventy elders and all of them were one formula without addition and without omission. And at his death, Israel became wise about his son and took the book of the Torah from his treasures, but they left this book there and did not take it because every king and the king who reigns under him will know the wonders of God, blessed be he, and that he chose Israel from all the nations, and that there is no god but him, blessed be he. Therefore this book is still in Egypt to this day. And from that time we spread throughout the land until they reached us in our exile in our exile today to the city of Naples which is under the hand of the King of Spain. And here you will find in this book that some of the kings of Edom and the kings of Katim and the kings of Africa that were in those days were written in it, even though it seems that they are not from the purpose and intention of the book.

And the reason for this is to inform everyone who finds this book. What is the difference between Israel's war and the wars of the Arab world? Because the victory of the kings of the world against each other is coincidentally what is not the case in the victory of the kings of Israel with the world, which is by a miracle from him, blessed be he, when they trust Israel in the name of Yatala. And here is this book, its benefits are many and they bring us to the promise of Yatala's name and to clinging to it and its ways. The first benefit is what added clarification to the matters of the creation of man and the matter of the flood. And the years of the second generations and their sin. And in this chapter they were born and in this time they died. And in this his son's heart will be straightened to cling to the name of Yahsal in our wonderful and terrible visions that he did in ancient times.

The second thing that also added to us is the matter of Abraham's birth and his adherence to the name of Yashal as it was. And the cases that happened to him with Nimrod, as well as the matter of the generation of sailing, how the Lord moved to the four corners of the earth and how they built all the countries and states that are called by their names until this day and in this we bring ourselves closer to the knowledge of our Creator. The third is what explained to us the sayings of the fathers in the name of Yat'al, how it was and the matter of their cases that God's fear preserves for us. The fourth is what he said about Sodom and their crimes and what their sin was and their punishment and in this we will stay away from anything bad. And the fifth is the matter of Yitzhak and Yaakov's devotion to the name of Yitala. And Sara's prayer and her crying in the Akidada of Yitzchak and this is a great benefit that his son will be inclined to worship the name Yatala.

The sixth thing that we informed about the wars of the sons of Jacob with the people of Nablus and the seven cities of the Amorites. This will awaken our hearts in the measure of security, God will be exalted in their hearts. The seventh is what explained to us all the incidents that happened to Joseph in Egypt with Potiphar and with his wife and with the king of Egypt because this will also inspire our hearts to fear God and distance ourselves from all sin so that it will be good for us in our afterlife. The eighth is what happened to Moshe, peace be upon him in Cush and Midian, because in this we will observe the wonderful things that he does with the righteous and adhere to the name of Yatala. The ninth is what happened to Israel in Egypt and how the beginning of their work was and how they worked the Egyptians with all hard work. And how was their reason in all this. Then he took the picture, God bless them in it, and there is no doubt that the one who reads the book about Egypt on the nights of Passover has a very great reward. As the deceased said, the whole number in the Exodus is excellent. And that's because this is the real story. It is appropriate to recite it after reading the Haggadah. Because he is guaranteed to have a great reward. And this is what we do today in our exile in Spain. After we read the entire Haggadah, we begin to read everything about Egypt in this book. From Israel's descent into Egypt until their exodus. Because in this book a person deserves to happen. The tenth is that some of the commentaries of our late Rabbis and all the commentaries that interpreted the Torah will be found in the commentary in this book. Like the angels who hurt Jacob when he came from Aram who went to Esau. The eleventh concerns Gabriel who taught Joseph seventy languages. And also what the one who beat Midian in the field of Moab said and everything like that. The twelfth is that every demander who demands in the plural will bring from him matters in the demand that the commentators did not interpret. And in this the hearts of those who hear his words will be drawn. The thirteenth that all merchants and wayfarers who do not have leisure for the Torah will read it and receive their wages. Because in it is the reward of the soul and the pleasure of the body to hear renewed things that were not written in any book. And from this man will observe the knowledge of God, may He be blessed, and adhere to Him. And because we saw the praise of this book and its great merit, we tried to print it and neither add to it nor subtract from it. And from now on we started printing fifty books from it. To be in the hands of the people of our covenant, the people of our redemption, to spread from it in every generation. City and city, family and family. country and country. So that they may observe His wonders and His goodness that He did with all our ancestors from ancient times. And he chose us from all the nations. And this will reward those who look at him who have given their hearts to the fear of him. And in the God of God we trust and in Him we lean. And from him we ask for trust and help to help us in this work because it is the work of heaven and will help us and guide us on a straight path and save us from errors and hidden things we will clean. As his Messiah said, errors, who will understand from the hiddenness of my righteousness. And God will show us the good path and guide us on the path of success for the sake of His mercy and grace. And fulfill his son's wishes for the best. Amen yes may it be.