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Auction 65

Sunday, May 28, 2023 at 5:00 PM UTC

Sefer Esh Dat and Shut Mutzal MiEsh (Alfandari) with Signatures and Glosses by the Rabbis of the Alfandari Family - First Edition Kushta 1718

Start price: $300

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Sefer Esh Dat, Drushim on the Parashiot by Rabbi Chaim ben Yitzchak Alfandari and Shut Mutzal MiEsh by Rabbi Yaakov Alfandari. Kushta, 1718. [2], 84, 42 leaves. [1] leaf is missing at the end. In the National Library, the book appears in the Rare Book Collection

New binding. Healthy paper with wide margins. Stains. Some taping. Good overall condition. 

On the title page, important Sephardic signatures: "אברהם אלפאנדארי"? – curly. "אני הצעיר שלמה בן יעקב אלפאנדארי הי"ו" – possibly referring to the Gaon Rabbi Shlomo Eliezer Alfandari (1813-1830) one of the leading rabbis of Turkey. Already in his youth corresponded with the Gaon Rabbi Akiva Eiger. For Dozens of years served as the Chief Rabbi of Kushta and then Damascus. In his old age, when he was almost a hundred years old, he immigrated to Eretz Yisrael and settled in Safed and then in Jerusalem, where he passed away when he was 118. In his final year, he met with the Admor the Minchat Eliezer of Munkatch and studied Kabbalah with him. Authored the Shut Maharsha, Shut Hasaba Kaddisha and more. 

On verso of the title page, a  lengthy gloss of ten passages opening with the initials "א"א" – אמר אברהם (Avraham said) – referring to Rabbi Avraham Alfandari. 

Glosses on the margins of the sheet, some of them lengthy and significant. In one of them: "עיין להרב מ"ז [מר זקני] בס’ עץ החיים…".

On leaf 16 of the second pagination, a comment that was written apparently  by Rabbi Shlomo Alfandari who signed the title page.