 Jedidiah Solomon's introduction was published by Samuel Vita della Volta in 1819, and republished by A. Jellinek at Vienna in 1876.A commentary on the "Minḥat Shai" was published by Ḥayyim Zeeb Bender of Babruisk under the title "Or Ḥayyim" (Wilna, 1867).Norzi was greatly influenced by the Spanish biblical scholar, Rabbi Meïr Ha-Levi, who is cited by him more than six-hundred times in "Minḥat Shai".