Chen Tov [sermons on the weekly Torah portion]

AUCTION 53 | Thursday, December 08th, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Lot 130

HALEVI, TOBIAS BEN ABRAHAM

Chen Tov [sermons on the weekly Torah portion]

Second edition. Title within architectural arch. Includes stamp of R. Tzvi Hirsch Lehren and bookplate of N. H. Van Biema. ff. 3 (of 4, lacking last leaf of introduction), 356. Title torn with loss of text, browned with some staining, ex-library. Contemporary vellum, rubbed. Folio Vinograd, Prague 312

Prague: Judah ben Jacob Katz, 1618-24

Est: $500 - $700

The author of Chen Tov hailed from Safed and frequently cites his mentor R. Solomon Sagis as well as other great scholars of Safed. His fellow student, Joseph di Trani (the Mahri”t) quotes Halevi’s work in Tzophnath Pane’ach and refers to him as his “colleague in Torah and Mitzvoth” Tzvi Hirsch Lehren (1784-1853) of Amsterdam, was the administrator of the Pekidim and Amarkalim Society, a charitable fund that disbursed monies collected in Western Europe to provide for the welfare of the Jews of Eretz Israel. Lehren was also a staunch defender of traditional Orthodoxy against the inroads of Reform.