Sepher ha-Zichronoth. * Bound with: Nachmias, Raphael ibn, ed. Sepher Mekor Ma’ayan ha-Chochmah [Midrash concerning Moses’ Sinaitic ascent to heaven and his exchanges with the angels]. ff. (2)

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Fine Judaica: Books and Manuscripts

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Aboab, Samuel

Sepher ha-Zichronoth. * Bound with: Nachmias, Raphael ibn, ed. Sepher Mekor Ma’ayan ha-Chochmah [Midrash concerning Moses’ Sinaitic ascent to heaven and his exchanges with the angels]. ff. (2)

Title within wreathed arch ff. (4), 86. Browned and wormed. Modern boards. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Prague 367

(Prague): (1650)

Est: $300 - $400
A work of practical halacha (halacha le-ma’aseh) that Reflects the Vicissitudes of Italian Jewish Life.There is some question as to the authorship of the book. It is attributed alternatively to Samuel ben Abraham Aboab (1610-1694), rabbi of Venice, or to Isaac ben Abraham Hayim Jesurun of Hamburg (d. 1655)