Shulchan HaTahor.

AZULAI, NISSIM ZERACHIAH.

I. Bak

Tzefath

1836

FIRST EDITION. Manuscript Segulah on last page.

Vinograd, Safed 13.

The daily recitation of the 613 precepts, based upon the order enumerated by the SHa”CH in his work Po’al Tzedek, with additional material including a section on the laws and customs in relation to dining. Grandson of the Chid’a, Nissim Azulai (1780–1837) was born in Jerusalem. He traveled to Turkey and was there appointed head of the Beth Din of Magnesia, near Smyrna. He settled in Safed in 1831 and there published the prayer book according to the Sephardi rite ‘Sefat Emet.’ He was killed in 1837, a victim of the great Safed earthquake. According to Yaari (Safed no. 12) this was the last book printed before the Safed earthquake, the subsequent devastation resulting in the cessation of printing in the town for more than 25 years.