Talmid Tzachkan Musari [dialogue in Hebrew and Yiddish against gambling and card playing based upon Jewish sources.]
AUCTION 58 |
Thursday, May 02nd,
2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters
Lot 244
(MODENA, JUDAH ARYEH-LEON DE).
Talmid Tzachkan Musari [dialogue in Hebrew and Yiddish against gambling and card playing based upon Jewish sources.]
Frankfurt an der Oder: Daughter of Professor Grilo 1795
Est: $800 - $1,200
A dialogue against gambling and card-playing in which one “Eldad” seeks to rehabilitate his friend “Meidad.” The author, a Venetian rabbi, was remarkably honest about his own addiction to gambling which unquestionably hampered his reputation as a rabbinic scholar. See I. Rivkind, Der Kampf Kegn Azartshpilen bei Yidden (1946).