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

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Lot 244
(MODENA, JUDAH ARYEH-LEON DE).

Talmid Tzachkan Musari [dialogue in Hebrew and Yiddish against gambling and card playing based upon Jewish sources.]

Hebrew and Yiddish. ff. 36. Browned, light wear, last page with pencil marks. Later marbled boards. Sm. 8vo. Vinograd, Frankfurt an der Oder, 446; Yodea Sefer 1436; Mehlman 1403.

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).