Auction 45
Lot 009:
A halachic and aggadic work organized by the parshiyot of the Torah by the sage Rabbi Yosef Zvi Hirsch of Pristik, the Av Beit Din of Reglin. The work is divided into two pillars, which are written as columns throughout the book—one called “Chiddushei Halachot” in which the author links a halachic idea to a parshah, drawing from the Rambam, and the second called “Tochechat Mussar”, in which he mentions great and deep ideas from Jewish thought. First edition from the author’s lifetime, 1779. [2], 70 leaves.
The back of the title page has a Portuguese printing license from the Livorno supporters, approbations from Livorno rabbis, Rabbi Aryeh Leib of Poznan and Rabbi Eliezer of Rechnitz and more. Long introduction from the author; in the beginning he catalogues his migration from the town of his birth because of some kind of libel, through all of the countries in which he gave drashot (Poznan, Lisa, Krakow, and the Ashkenaz regions of Bohemia and Moravia, Holland, and England), until he reached Livorno where he decided to publish this book. New binding, moth holes, stains, repairs to the title page, overall fair to good condition.
The title page has three notes of ownership in Sefardi handwriting, one below the other: “This book belongs to the chacham Yosef Shaul”, “I bought this from him, the young Refael Benvenist”, “And I bought it from him the young Yosef HaLevi s”t.”
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