Lev Marpe [halachic novellae]

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Lot 198

PANIGEL, RAPHAEL MEIR

Lev Marpe [halachic novellae]

Presentation panel on verso of title in gold leaf. Signed and stamped by Author. On ff. 68v.-69v. there is a responsum to a query from America ("written in the English language") whether it would be permitted to ride to synagogue on the Sabbath in a carriage servicing non-Jewish passengers. ff. (5), 127. Lightly browned. Contemporary boards. Folio

Jerusalem: Shmuel Halevi Zuckerman 1887

Est: $300 - $500

A native of Bulgaria, Raphael Meir Panigel (1804-93) served in the latter part of the 19th-century as Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. During a long and illustrious career, Panigel was emissary of Hebron to Italy and received at the Vatican by Pope Gregory XVI. See Yaari, Sheluchei Eretz Israel, pp. 691-2, 739; EJ, Vol. XIII, cols. 56-7.