Auction 20
Lot 180:
Shot Sha’arei Rachamim, second section, by the Gaon Rabbi Rachamim Yosef Franco. First edition, printed by Zuckerman, Jerusalem. On the advertisement page is a dedication handwritten and signed by the author’s son to Rabbi Menachem HaKohen Chassid. Stamp of ownership of Haim Berlin, son of the Gaon HaNatziv, Rav of Moscow and Av Beit Din and Ram of Volozhin, and now Jerusalem. (See about him in other items in this sale). | Rabbi Haim Rachamim Yosef Franco (known as the Charif) (1835-1902) was the Chief Sefardi Rabbi of the Hevron community and founder of the Chesed Avraham Hospital. | Rav Menachem Shem Tov HaKohen Chassid (1865-1921) was a dayan and posek, member of the Eida Sefaradit Committee in Jerusalem and of the community’s beit din in the city, a leader of the Doresh Zion Beit Midrash and one of the most recognizable rabbis of the Sefardi community in Jerusalem. | Half-leather binding. Cover page detached. | [3], 158 pages. 35cm. Generally good condition.
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