Shesh Sha’arim-Zecher Rav- Memoria De los 613 Preceptos de la S. Ley y fiete de Sabios [poem on the categories and reasons for the Precepts]. Translated into Spanish by SOLOMON ADHAN

SASPORTAS, SOLOMON

Naphtali Hertz Levi Ropé

Amsterdam

1727

FIRST SPANISH EDITION. Text in Hebrew and Spanish. Two titles in Hebrew and Spanish. Woodcut device on Spanish title

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1313; Steinschnider 6976:2; Kayserling 99 & 8

A member of the influential Amsterdam Sasportas family, Solomon served as Rabbi of Nice in the Provençe region of France from 1690 until his death in 1724. Solomon Adhan hailed from Tãfîlãlet, Morocco and first lived in Tetuán. He left for Gibraltar and arrived in Amsterdam in 1720 to collect funds to redeem his family and synagougue which had fallen into the hands of nomadic Arabs in Tãfîlãlet. (See EJ V, col 1224). The name, Sasportas indicates that the family originally came from a place called Seisportas ("six gates" in Spanish). It is in recognition of this that R. Solomon called his work Shesh Sha’arim (“six gates” in Hebrew)