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Chaim ben Betzalel. Igereth HaTiyul [short commentaries: Peshat, Remez, Drash and Sod].

Auction 87 · Lot 5

Chaim ben Betzalel. Igereth HaTiyul [short commentaries: Peshat, Remez, Drash and Sod].

Estimate
$120–$180
Hammer price
Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(ALEPPO).

printer

Eliyahu Hai Sasson

Place

Aleppo (Aram Tzovah)

Publication

1872

references

Ya’ari, Aleppo 7; and see D. Sutton, Aleppo: City of Scholars no. 191.

summary

A fascinating conflation of Jewish cultural backgrounds: A work first composed in Prague in 1605 by the brother of the Mahara’l, here reissued more than two centuries later in the ancient city of Aleppo, Syria; and in which the editor, Moshe Mordehai Dayan, includes an endorsement penned by the Chassidic Rebbe Avraham Joshua Heschel of Apt, noting that all the author’s words “are pearls…imbued with a holy spirit”.
ff. 32. Some staining, marginal paper repair on title, taped repair on f. 4, small perforation on leaves not affecting text. Later wrappers. 12mo.
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