Elijah ben Raphael Solomon Halevi. Autograph Letter Signed in Hebrew written to Chaim Joseph David Azulai (the Chid”a)

Estimate

$600–$900

Hammer price

$1,100

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author

(ITALY).

Place

Alessandria

Publication

1790

Description

A defense of the the Italian custom of blowing the shofar at dawn on Rosh Hashanah.

summary

Elijah ben Raphael Solomon Halevi, a native of Finale Ligure, served as Rabbi of Alessandria (in the Piedmont region of northern Italy) from 1738 until his death in 1792. He exchanged halachic letters with the preeminent sage of the day, R. Chaim Joseph David Azulai (Chida) of Livorno (1724-1806). This particular letter is alluded to by Chida in his collected Responsa Chaim Sha'al (Livorno, 1792) no. 10 (par. 3). A more detailed examination of this letter is available upon request. See also Ch.J.D. Azulai, Shem HaGedolim, I, A-170; II, C-62; M. Benayahu, Chida (1959) pp. 226-27, 247; JE, Vol. I p. 340.

Three pages. In a very neat minute hand

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