Sha’arai Dimah [“The Gates of Tears”]

AUCTION 34 | Tuesday, September 12th, 2006 at 1:00

Exemplary Hebrew Books: The Library of Joseph Gradenwitz, Esq.

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ALBELDA, MOSES

Sha’arai Dimah [“The Gates of Tears”]

FIRST EDITION. Printer’s device on title ff. (10),140. Stained. Title with inscription in a Sephardic hand, signed Yehoshua Bedarsi). Modern limp vellum, upper cover with scribal calligraphy. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Venice 696; Habermann, di Gara 85; not in Adams

Venice: Giovanni di Gara 1586

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $600

The present work is a philosophical commentary to the Book of Lamentations discussing the vanity of the world and the suffering of Man. The Author concludes that human suffering and the death of the Righteous, atone for, and heal the soul. Moses Albelda (1500-c.1583) was born either in Spain or Salonika. He acted as rabbi of Arta, Greece, and later in Valona, Albania. See EJ, Vol. II, col. 529