Emeth Ve’Emunah [Code of Jewish Law]

Arobas, Isaac

Ambrosino-Bragadin

Venice

1672

Divisional title (Hilchoth Yom Tov) within typographic border prior to final section. Text in Hebrew and Italian

Vinograd, Venice 1393

The author, Isaac, son of Hananiah Arobas, “Justice and Leader of some Communities of the Maghreb (Morocco),” sought to present the basic texts of Judaism composed by Maimonides and Joseph Karo in both Hebrew and the vernacular for the Jews of Italy. To this end, he gathered here a digest comprising the Thirteen Principles of Faith from Maimonides’ commentary to the Mishnah Sanhedrin; Maimonides’ Sepher Hamitzvoth (Book of Commandments); and a popularized version of Karo’s Shulchan Aruch. Thus the layman is provided with the rudiments of halacha, both dogmatic and practical. The book is prefaced with a laudatory poem by the famous Italian kabbalist R. Moses Zacuto