Handwritten Booklets, Chacham Yitzchak Rachamim Alshich, 19-20th Century

Collection of various works. Decorated at the head of the title page "ברכת" - indicating 1862. The writer's name has been crossed out and replaced by the name of the person who wrote most of the ledger "Yitzchak Rachamim Alshich."

About 100 pages, paper. 14x19 cm. Maghrebi script, various hands.

This booklet of Rabbi Yitzchak Rachamim Alshich's is very important. Includes 127 short songs (leaf 1a-11b);"Copy of the Talmud Lashon Ivri when I was in Xante in the month of compassion in 1873" (12a); sayings from the Talmud in alphabetical order through letter 11 (18a-19a); various flowery phrases and more (19-25); sermons, including one for Sukkot 1908 delivered in Marseilles (25b-29b). Leaves 31a-42a: "Kol Rachim" by Rabbi Chaim Yosef Mamman regarding "the cylindrical millstones that we customarily used for a few years to grind the wheat for Passover," which features the responsa of the Algerian rabbis, apparently a copy of the lithograph of the work published in Algeria in 1912; poems celebrating the Balfour Declaration in 1919 (43a-44a). Leaves 44b-53a and 60b-70a are blank. Leaves 53b-60a, in a different hand: piyutim for the shofar blowing. Leaves 70b-71b: "Note on the tombstones" written by Yitzchak Rachamim Alshich. Leaf 75b: expense accounting from the above.

Moderate-fine condition, blemished back binding , partially detached spine, stains.