Ho’il Moshe [collected sermons].

AUCTION 74 | Thursday, November 09th, 2017 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Lot 7
ALFALAS, MOSES

Ho’il Moshe [collected sermons].

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Title within architectural arch. ff. 139 (9). Trimmed, dampstained. Modern blind-tooled morocco. Sm. 4to.

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Est: $500 - $700
PRICE REALIZED $750
The late 16th-century preacher Moses Alfalas was a native of Tetuan, Spanish Morocco. A contemporary of the MaHaRa”L, R. Judah Löw of Prague, he too employed philosophical terms in his sermons, while giving them novel meaning.