Lion Cub of Prague - Thought, Kabbalah and Hashkafa from Gur Aryeh, the Maharal of Prague 3 Volume Set

For centuries, readers have studied the weekly Torah portion with Rashi’s classic commentary. Gur Aryeh, the Maharal of Prague’s supercommentary on Rashi, combines explanations of Rashi’s words with philosophical, kabbalistic, and hashkafic insights.

This three-volume English series by Dr. Moshe David Kuhr makes the Maharal’s teachings accessible to English-speaking readers, with translation and explanatory insights that deepen understanding of the Torah and Rashi. The set covers all Five Books of the Torah.

A native of Dayton, Ohio, Moshe David Kuhr attended Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim in Baltimore and attained his medical degree from the University of Chicago. After forty years of pediatric practice, he made aliya with his wife Phyllis to Katamon, Jerusalem, where he learns, teaches and writes. His Torah mentors include Rabbis Boruch Milikovsky zl, Berel Wein, Moshe Tendler, Avraham Pessin zl, Yaakov Haber and more recently Yitzchak Breitowitz. His published works include The Lion Cub of Prague: Genesis, (Devora Press, 2006), a rendition of Maharals supercommentary on the first book of the Torah, and Igeret Hakodesh: The Holy Letter(Mosaica Press, 2011). The Kuhrs have four sons, three of whom have made aliya, and nine grandchildren, seven of whom live in Israel.