Shulchan Tahor [anthology of Halachic rules from the Shulchan Aruch]. Postumously edited by the Author’s son, David Pardo.
Auction 98 |
Thursday, June 16th,
2022 at 1:00pm
Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Autograph Letters
Lot 248
PARDO, YOSEPH.
Shulchan Tahor [anthology of Halachic rules from the Shulchan Aruch]. Postumously edited by the Author’s son, David Pardo.
Amsterdam: Uri Phoebus ben Aaron Halevi 1686
Est: $700 - $1,000
PRICE REALIZED $400
In his introduction, David Pardo explains that he found the text of the work among the manuscripts of his deceased father. Despite the fact Amsterdam’s rabbis supposedly protected the rights of translation for a period of ten years, a Spanish translation appeared in Amsterdam in 1689.
Joseph Pardo served as Hazzan of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation, London, a post to which his son succeeded him. According to A. Hyamson: “The two Pardos were the most scholarly occupants of the office until the time of David de Sola… The younger Pardo was…a remarkably accurate reader of the prayers, and throughout the twenty years of his tenure of office, there is no record of his having been fined for errors for which members of the congregation were always on the watch.” A. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1951) pp. 78-9.
Dedication to Officers of Maamad of Kaal Kados of London: Abraham Israel Enriques, Jacob Gomez Serra, and Aaron Franco Pacheco. Approbations of Hahamim of Amsterdam, Isaac Aboab, Jacob Sasportas, and Solomon de Oliveira, followed by the haskamah of Moses Judah Hakohen of the Ashkenazic congregation of Amsterdam.