Pnei David Responsa, Jerusalem 1924, dedication of author / stamps of Rabbi Shabtai Buchbut

Pnei David Responsa, Jerusalem 1924, dedication of author / stamps of Rabbi Shabtai Buchbut

Pnei David's responsa, by Rabbi David Papo, Jerusalem, 1924. On the reverse side of the title-page, handwritten dedication and ink-stamp of the author, to "S. David de Botton, Rabbi of Yaffo", many stamps of the Kabbalist Rabbi Shabtai Buhbut, Rabbi of Beirut (Lebanon).

Rabbi David Papo: [1848-1927] Chief Rabbi of Bursa in Turkey and Bitola in Macedonia, Chacham Bashi of Tripoli in Libya and Baghdad in Iraq, Av Beit Din and member of the Sephardi Community Committee in the city. As a young man, his father was brought up to be educated in the city's yeshivas alongside rabbis Yitzhak Ashkenazi, Yaakov Meir and Rabbi Mordechai Israel. At the end of his studies, he was ordained by the Rabbis of the Sephardi community in Jerusalem.

The Kabbalist Rabbi Shabtai Bohbut: 1870-1948, Rabbi of the Jewish community of Kielce, Syria during the First World War, the Chief Rabbi of Aleppo in Syria. Upon his arrival in Jerusalem, he learned from the Rishon Lezion Rabbi Ya'akov Meir. From 1925 until his death, he served as chief rabbi of Lebanese Jewry and died in Beirut in 1948 (17 Nissan 5768) and was buried there. His son Ben-Zion Bhabut, he was buried in Jerusalem on the 27th of Adar 2, 5712, despite the tension at the borders at the time. 

Fine condition. Worn cover.