Auction 32
Lot 208:
Wonderful, organized manuscript, handwritten and signed in a number of places by Rabbi Yaakov ben Lilati. At the beginning of the work: “I found written in this book things written by sages such as the manuscript of the Rav Yaakov ibn Tzur”—with an unknown work by the (Moroccan) Yavetz with words of mussar on issues of wealth, tzedakah, laziness, and more. At the end is a signature of Rabbi Yaakov handwritten: “Yaakov ben Lilati ben Yosef N. Lilati…”. At the end is an additional copy “sent by Rabbi Refael Yaakov N. Simchon…”, with a eulogy for the death of tzaddikim. At the end is a letters sent by Rabbi Yaakov ben Simchon on issues of tzedakah in Fez, other letters from Rabbi Yaakov ben Lilati to Rabbi Avraham HaKohen in Israel, a eulogy from sages of Dovdo for Rabbi Siriro, a letter notifying about a death sent by Rabbi Yaakov ibn Tzur following the passing of Rabbi Moshe Toledano, and additional letters on people who had gotten sick and recovered, condolence letters for a sage who had died and a woman who died, a letter sent by the Yavetz to Rash Azovi on something that happened in Sali regarding treifut and the firing of a shochet, an unknown piyyut, and a letter of shadrut written by Rabbi Even Samon from Tzfat regarding tzedakah following the earthquake of 1837 and a request for support for the city’s residents. At the end is an inscription: “This I have written [Rabbi Yaakov ben Lilati] in 1890[?].” [24] pages handwritten. 14x18cm. Tears at the margins of the pages. Pages all detached, stains. Compare: Manuscript NY JTS 307 “Kohelet Yaakov, chiddushim on the Parshiyot” at the Jewish Theological Seminary Library, New York. Rabbi Yaakov ben Lilati (born 1770 approximately) was a sage of Taza (adjacent to Fez, Morocco), student of Rabbi Refael Yaakov ben Simchon. Author of the Kohelet Yaakov.
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