Yihiya Salach. Sepher Sha’arei Kedushah [abridged laws of ritual slaughter].
Auction 92 |
Thursday, February 18th,
2021 at 1:00pm
Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts
Lot 213
(INDIA).
Yihiya Salach. Sepher Sha’arei Kedushah [abridged laws of ritual slaughter].
Calcutta: Elazar ben Aaron Saadia Iraqi HaKohen 1851
Est: $400 - $600
PRICE REALIZED $850
R. Yahia Salach (1713-1805), known as Mahari’tz, was one of the great Yemenite scholars. Residing in Sana’a, one of his chief contributions was his navigating the tension between the Sephardic practices mandated by the increasingly popular Shulchan Aruch and age-old Yemenite customs more in line with the views of Maimonides.
Elazar Iraqi arrived in Calcutta from Cochin sometime before 1816 and established the city’s first Hebrew press in 1841. The nature of the present work is representative of Calcutta’s burgeoning Jewish community (mainly of Iraqi and Syrian extraction); in the space of seven years, Iraqi published five separate works on the subject of ritual slaughter.