Arbol de Vidas, en el qual se contienen los Dinim mas necessarios que deve observar todo Yisrael ["Tree of Life, In Which are Contained the Most Necessary Laws that Every Jew Must Observe.”]
AUCTION 50 |
Thursday, February 24th,
2011 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Art
Lot 346
VAEZ, ABRAHAM.
Arbol de Vidas, en el qual se contienen los Dinim mas necessarios que deve observar todo Yisrael ["Tree of Life, In Which are Contained the Most Necessary Laws that Every Jew Must Observe.”]
(Amsterdam): n.p. 1692
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
PRICE REALIZED $1,600
The author Abraham Vaez was Haham of the Spanish-Portuguese Congregation Nephusot Yehudah of Bayonne, France. This handy presentation of Jewish laws in the Spanish language would, one imagines, have been welcomed by a community intent on seeking to reacquaint itself to practicing traditional Judaism, but not having the tools to study the Shulchan Aruch and similar such Hebrew texts