Yemin Hashem Romemah [responsa based on ruling by Samuel Algazi, drawing upon Kabbalistic sources]

AUCTION 5 | Tuesday, June 23rd, 1998 at 1:00

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FANO, MENACHEM AZARIAH DA & OVADIAH SFORNO.

Yemin Hashem Romemah [responsa based on ruling by Samuel Algazi, drawing upon Kabbalistic sources]

FIRST EDITION ff.(4). Lightly stained. Wide margins. Modern calf. 4to Vinograd, Venice 988; Mehlman 1693 (for response cf. 1694); Habermann, di Gara 233

Venice: Giovanni di Gara 1605

Est: $4,000 - $5,000

PRICE REALIZED $4,000

Concerns a Halachic dispute concerning the waving of the Lulav, and the correct practices in general regarding precedence of right over left. Includes examples of differing customs as practiced by Jews from Austria and the Rhineland. Title page particularly curious in its bold and most uncommon use of the Tetragrammaton