Sepher Ho’il Moshe [sermons].

Auction 95 | Thursday, November 11th, 2021 at 11:00am

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Lot 83

ALFALAS, MOSHE.

Sepher Ho’il Moshe [sermons].

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Two parts in one. The Israel Mehlman copy. ff. 139, (8). Some worming, taped, title repaired. Modern boards. 8vo. Vinograd, Venice 830.

Venice: Daniel Zanetti 1597

Est: $500 - $700

The late 16th-century preacher R. Moses Alfalas was a native of Tetuan, Spanish Morocco. A contemporary of the MaHaRaL of Prague, he too employed philosophical terms in his sermons, while giving them novel meaning. The thirteen chapters of Ho’il Moshe treat the midrashic sayings concerning the giving of the Torah to Israel, followed by seven chapters on the significance of circumcision.