Auction 45

Rare: Sefer Shulchan Arba by Rabbeinu Bachay. Prague 1783.

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With four sections dealing with halachot of seudah, including brachot, and mussar and hanhagot of the seudah, by Rabbi Bachay ben Asher ibn Halawa, the author of the Midrash Rabbeinu Bachay. The fourth section deals with “an exegesis on the seudah metukan for tzaddikim in the future to come”.

This edition had added to it the Will of Rabbi Shabtai Sheptil ben HaShla Kadosh, Prague 1783. 25, [7] leaves. Unknown publisher. The National Library categorizes it as a rare book. At the beginning is a nice poem from the author: “Man is created from four things, Hasechet, Shma, Razim, Abiya…”

Spine a little defective, small hole in the title page, stains, rare book (important) in good condition.


The back of the title page has a note in Hebrew and stamps in another language with the name: “Binyamin Bamberger.”