Ma’amar Yayin ha-Meshumar [Treatise of the Guarded Wine”]

AUCTION 27 | Tuesday, February 08th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Lot 203

SHAPIRO, NATHAN

Ma’amar Yayin ha-Meshumar [Treatise of the Guarded Wine”]

First Edition. Title within typographical border. Ex library. On title, owner's signature, “Eizik Berlin, 1820” ff. (8), 38. Lightly browned and stained. Wrappers. 8vo Vinograd, Venice 1345; See Ya'ari, Sheluchei Eretz Israel (1977), p. 106

Venice: n.p. 1660

Est: $300 - $400

PRICE REALIZED $200

Treatise on the prohibition of drinking Gentile wine and regarding the issue of shaving one’s beard. When the Jerusalemite R. Nathan Shapiro arrived in Venice in the year 1655 he found that his Italian coreligionists were lax in both these areas of observance. He attempted to remedy the situation by pennning this kabbalistic treatise. The lengthy introduction to the work includes earlier statements by a broad array of rabbis including the legendary R. Judah Löw (Maharal) of Prague. This work has been recently reprinted at the behest of R. Moshe Zuriel of B'nei Berak