Yemin Hashem Romemah [responsa based on ruling by Samuel Algazi, drawing upon Kabbalistic sources]

Estimate: $4,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $4,000

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author

FANO, MENACHEM AZARIAH DA & OVADIAH SFORNO.

printer

Giovanni di Gara

Place

Venice

Publication

1605

Description

FIRST EDITION

references

Vinograd, Venice 988; Mehlman 1693 (for response cf. 1694); Habermann, di Gara 233

summary

Concerns a Halachic dispute concerning the waving of the Lulav, and the correct practices in general regarding precedence of right over left. Includes examples of differing customs as practiced by Jews from Austria and the Rhineland. Title page particularly curious in its bold and most uncommon use of the Tetragrammaton

ff.(4). Lightly stained. Wide margins. Modern calf. 4to

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