Divrei Yoseph [responsa]

AUCTION 66 | Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 1:00

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Lot 124

ERGAS, JOSEPH

Divrei Yoseph [responsa]

<<First Edition.>> Title within three-piece ornamental border. Marginal scholarly notes in a Sephardic hand.<< A wide-margined large-paper copy.>> ff. (1), 110. Trace wormed. Modern boards. Sm. folio. Vinograd, Livorno 32.

Livorno: Abraham Meldola 1742

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $325

With an interesting introduction by Ergas’s disciple R. Malachi Hacohen (author of Yad Malachi) which includes a detailed biography of the author. Ergas (1685-1730) established a Yeshiva in Pisa and later served as Rabbi of Livorno. In addition to his halachic scholarship, Ergas is renowned for his polemics against Nechemia Hayon refuting Sabbatian belief. See E. Carlebach, The Pursuit of Heresy (1990) pp. 137-43.