Mili DeBrachoth – Yad Ya’akov [Talmudic novellae]

ELIYAKIM, YECHIEL YA’AKOV BEN ISRAEL CHAIM JOSEPH.

Constantinople

18th-19th century

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in a cursive Sephardic hand on paper.

Autograph(?) of an original work to Tractate Berachoth, as well as to Orach Chaim and Even Ha’ezer. The second part of the manuscript comprises a commentary to Maimonides’s Mishnah Torah and concludes with laws for the Passover Seder. This work does not appear to have been published. The author served as a Rabbinic judge in Constantinople towards the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. His introduction appears in Shailoth U’Teshuvoth HaGeonim (Salonika 1802).