Shibolei ha-Leket [“The Gathered Sheaves”: Rabbinic code]

ANAV, ZEDEKIAH BEN ABRAHAM HA-ROPHE

Daniel Bomberg

Venice

1546

FIRST EDITION. Title within woodcut architectural arch. On final page, signatures of various Church censors: “Fr[ater] Renato da Mod[en]a1626"; “Revisus p[er] me Laurentiu[m] Franguellu[m]"; “Fra. Hipp[olitu]s Ferr[arens]is purgavit 1601." (See Wm. Poppers, The Censorship of Hebrew Books, pl. IV, nos. 4, 5; pl. III, no.5)

Vinograd, Venice 295; Habermann, Bomberg 182; Adams Z-117

The most notable of the 13th-century Italian codes, Shibolei ha-Leket discusses the laws of ritual and festivals. In the introduction, the author states that his purpose is to sift those decisions from the mass of opinions that might be relied upon to teach the correct mode of religious conduct. See M. Waxman, Vol. II, pp. 130-132. Tradition has it that the Anav (Heb. Min ha-Anavim) Family was one of four aristocratic families Titus brought from Jerusalem to Rome after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 c.e. Zedekiah ben Abraham (1225-1297) was one of many distinguished Talmudists to emerge from this illustrious Roman family