Einei Avraham [commentary and novellae on Mishneh Torah Hilchot Ma'aseh Ha-Korbanoth]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $300

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author

TZAFIG, ABRAHAM

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Widow and Orphans Proops

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1784

Description

FIRST EDITION. A wide-margined copy. With signatures by R. Joseph the son of R. Jonathan of Shkod, a descendent of R. Jonathan Eybeschuetz

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 2140

summary

The approbations (including R. Yechezel Landau of Prague) state that the author was blind since birth, yet "his mind is imbued with the light of knowledge." In his introduction, R. Abraham Tzafig thanks his study-partner R. Chaim Raphael Navon who wrote the work as dictated to him by the author. See A. Yaari, Mechkarei Sepher (1958) p.138

ff. (8), 76. Some staining. Contemporary gilt tooled calf, worn. 4to

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