Chaim ben Betzalel. Igereth HaTiyul [short commentaries: Peshat, Remez, Drash and Sod].

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(ALEPPO).

printer

Eliahu Hai Sasson

Place

Aleppo

Publication

1872

references

Ya’ari, Aleppo 7; and see D. Sutton, Aleppo: City of Scholars no. 191.

summary

A fascinating conflation of Jewish cultural backgrounds: A work composed first in Prague in 1605 by the brother of the Maharal, here reprinted more than two centuries later in the ancient city of Aleppo, Syria, in which the editor, Moshe Mordehai Dayan, includes an endorsement for the work penned by the Chassidic Rebbe Abraham Joshua Heschel of Apt, noting that all the author’s words “are pearls… imbued with a holy spirit”.

ff. 32. Some staining, marginal repair on title, taped repair on f. 4, not affecting text. Later wrappers. 12mo.

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