Auction 44 Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Mar 11, 2015 (Your local time)
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Shivrei Luchot, by Rabbi Menachem Azarya (the Rama) of Pano - Safed, 1864 - Signatures of Rabbi Ezra Yosef Shayo, a ...

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Shivrei Luchot, by Rabbi Menachem Azarya (the Rama) of Pano - Safed, 1864 - Signatures of Rabbi Ezra Yosef Shayo, a Rabbi in Aleppo
Shivrei Luchot composition, by Rabbi Menachem Azarya (the Rama) of Pano. With: the ruling "Yemin Hashem Romema" by the Rama of Pano, and homiletic by Rabbi Shlomo Alkabetz. Safed, 1864. First edition.
Shivrei Luchot is the tenth composition of the Rama's work “Asara Ma'amarot” [in the book “Asara Ma'amarot” (Venice 1597) only three compositions were printed. Other compositions were printed separately at various times]. This composition was first printed from "a very old manuscript" owned by Rabbi Shmuel Heller Rabbi of Safed who published the book.
An introduction by Rabbi Shmuel Heller appears before the ruling “Yemin Hashem Romema”. On the last page: “From the manuscript of the Maharchu [Rabbi Chaim Vital]… and this is what it says: I found a manuscript by my Teacher [Rabbi Yitchak Luria]…”.
On the title page are signatures: “Ezra Yosef Abadi called Shayo” Rabbi Ezra Yosef Abadi Shayo (1870-1939), a leading dayan and rabbi in Aleppo (Halab). On his tombstone is the inscription: “All his days he studied Torah and produced novellae on the Talmud and Poskim according to Pardess (Pshat, Drash, Remez and Sod) with deep wisdom and straight logic, he studied and taught…many disciples who later became Torah authorities and dayanim…”
[1], 21 leaves. 18 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and wear, pencil inscriptions. Damages to binding.

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