Ohalei Yehudah ["Tents of Judah": Halachic compendium]

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JUDAH BECHER SOLOMON HAKOHEN

Ohalei Yehudah ["Tents of Judah": Halachic compendium]

FIRST EDITION. On title, signature in Hebrew of former owner "Abraham Laredo" ff. (3), 145. Title and final leaf reinforced, marginal worming, minor loss of text. Modern boards. Folio Halevy 10

Jerusalem: Israel ben Abraham [Bak] 1843

Est: $200 - $300

PRICE REALIZED $200

The style of arranging articles on halachic topics in alphabetical order was popular among Sephardic rabbis. The first seventeen leaves here (independent of the rest) are commentaries on Maimonides' Mishneh Torah. In the Introduction, the Author offers a mystical explanation as to why the Redemption did not arrive in the year [5]600 a.m. / 1840 c.e. as prophesied in the Zohar. See A. Morgenstern, Ge’ulah be-Derech ha-Teva (1979), pp. 12-16