Auction 57

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Shut Beit HaLevi. Edition with additions made during the author’s lifetime. Venice 1632.

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Shut from Moharar Yaakov (ben Yisrael) of the Beit HaLevi (born in Greece, lived and worked in Italy; the Chida says of him that his Torah and gedulah united upon his table and he would work to help the Jews living among the non-Jews, and he once was even kidnapped and exiled to Malta and later released).


Edition from the author’s lifetime, printed in Venice. The colophon lists the year of printing has 1634. 194 leaves.
Catalogued in the Rare Books section of the National Library. Introduction by the author, in which he writes that he added chiddushim and other additions to this edition that weren’t in prior editions (Venice 1614).

New handsome binding, stains and worming holes, professionally repaired title page, tear in the middle of 8 leaves (no damage to text). Average general condition.

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