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<p>Elementary principles and introduction to the wisdom of kabbalah received by Rabbi Chaim Vital from his spiritual master, the Ari za"l . Written in Oriental script by Rabbi Yosef Bahloul of Meknes and features a decorative title page with kabbalistic illustrations.</p>
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<p>The title page bears the scribe’s autograph and inscription: <b>“Written here in Meknes in the year…1812 by the youth who engages in sacred work, Yosef son of my wise and scholarly father Rabbi Yehuda Bahloul. May Hashem grant that I and my children should learn it, amen. Uncover my eyes, and I will gaze at the wonders of your Torah.” </b></p>
<p><b>It is likely that the scribe Rabbi Yosef Bahloul, was of the Rabbis in Meknes whose halachic rulings and signature appears in several works of his contemporaries.(see Malchi Rabanan pg 61)</b></p>
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<p>The present manuscript of Otzros Chaim is a combination of two sefarim—Otzros Chaim and Mevo She’arim, with the majority drawing from the latter work. It was thus officially named Otzros Chaim B’Arichah Maaravis (Edited by the Rabbis of North Africa) and eventually printed as is in Livorno in 1849. The present sefer differs fundamentally from the original Otzros Chaim printed in Koritz, 1783, which was edited by Rabbi Yaakov Tzemach.</p>
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<p>This is a complete manuscript of the sefer and features the annotations of Magrabi kabbalists Rabbi Avraham Azoulay of Marrakech and Rabbi Avraham ben Musa.</p>
<p>Glosses by Magrabi sages were added by hand in “sidebars”. Some of these passages begin with the letters א"א, an acronym for “Amar Avraham (Avraham said)”, and the signature אב"מ, an acronym for Avraham ben Musa.<br /></p>
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<p>Between the title page and body of the sefer, the author included a full-page chart of the Sefiros presented in circles. On the next page, he writes, “This is what I discovered in the manuscripts of the G-dly kabbalist, the pious and humble Moreinu Harav Avraham Azoulay ztvk”l…This is what I found in Safra D’tzniusa” and includes the twenty-two principles of the wisdom of kabbalah presented in Safra D’tzniusa D’Yaakov (Amsterdam, 1669).</p>
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<p><b>Meknes, 1812. Page Count</b>: 1, [6], 2-140 leaves; 287 handwritten sides.<b> Page Size:</b> 21x15 cm. <b>Condition:</b> Water damage to upper margins, miniscule holes in margins; original Moroccan binding. Bibliography: See Hakdamos U’shearim L’Baal HaLeshem p. 59a; Y. Avivi; Binyan Ariel p. 59 note 31. </p>
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Inscribed entirely on parchment, this captivating Code of the Bikur Cholim Society of Frankfurt encompasses 45 ordinances and signatures of over 270 prominent members of the 18th century Frankfurt Jewish community. This manuscript features the rare and sacred autograph of the saintly kabbalist and miracle-worker Rabbi Nosson Adler who was the prime mentor of the Chasam Sofer.
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The extensive list of Jewish families whose names appear on this deed include many famous names that are synonymous with Frankfurt’s golden age, among them the families Oppenheim, Ansbach, Emmerich, Floersheim, Schiff, Trier Rothschild, Binga, Fulda, Scheier, Speyer, Schwab, Henna, Schwartzshield, Sonnes, Adler, Kahn, Schluss, Wallach, Ittingen, Schuster, Maz, Raff, Manheim and many others.
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The Frankfurt Jewish community prided itself on its precise order and efficiency, and distinguished itself with its cornerstone of mutual help and charity for those in need. The community established an extensive social services network to assist their fellow Jews, and one of the most noteworthy branches was the Bikur Cholim Society which cared for any Jewish patient who could not afford competent medical care. The community further extended Chevra Kaddisha services to a resident who could not afford the costs of burial and arranged learning and shemirah from the hour of death until burial.
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This historic document offers a fascinating glimpse into the rich Jewish community life and culture that prevailed during the golden era of Jewish Frankfurt.
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The Ordinances:
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The Code encompasses 45 sections stipulating the rights and liabilities of the Society members in great detail. Every male and female member of the Society who paid a steady membership fee was entitled to receive medical care from the Society.
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The elected Gabbaim were responsible to supervise and ensure that the patients would be visited at home by a doctor who would determine whether or not it was necessary to admit the patient to the Society’s infirmary which had designated rooms for patients in need of full time care. The Gabbaim were likely liable to ensure that patients received all their meals and medicines regularly.
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The Bikur Cholim Society employed two Jewish doctors who were both members of the Frankfurt Jewish community—Dr. Fes Rofeh and Dr. Rabbi Anschel Rofeh, (who authored Syag LaTorah, printed in Frankfurt am Main, 1766 - Note that even the doctors were Torah giants)—and was charged with providing medical care to all Society members (Sec. 31).
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In the event that a Society member passed away, the Society took responsibility to arrange burial, a tombstone, a Ner Tamid, and learn and recite Kaddish in order to elevate his soul.
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The Code further stipulated the membership fee collection policy, penalties meted out to Gabbaim who did not fulfill their duties faithfully, and election policy.
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Rabbi Nosson Adler’s sacred autograph appears on Page 2, Column 2, Line 15. He was 18 years old when he signed this document
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<b>Rabbi Nosson Adler Katz</b> (1742-1800) was renowned as a “man of G-d, holy and pious priest” (Shu”t Ksav Sofer Orach Chaim 48). He established his yeshiva in Frankfurt when he was 20 years old . He was a saintly kabbalist and miracle worker who was the prime mentor and illustrious teacher of the Chasam Sofer . In his eulogy upon his beloved spiritual master, the Chasam Sofer expressed that “he attained the pinnacle of chassidus and prishus…and there was no secret unrevealed to him, and all gates of Torah were open before him.” He further attests that a fire once tore through the city of Frankfurt, yet the conflagration did not approach Rabbi Nosson’s house (Drashos Chasam Sofer pps 371-373).
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The Chasam Sofer’s son Rabbi Shimon Sofer once inscribed that Rabbi Nosson Adler was “an angel of Hashem”, yet his father rebuked him and said, “Why do you write that he is an angel of Hashem? No angel has ever attained his level! No angel has ever approached the level of my master (Hagahos Shaar Yosef ibid). The Baal Haflaah similarly expressed at Rabbi Nosson Adler’s funeral that “he was beyond human in his greatness” (Mishnas Rabbi Nosson).
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“Frankfurt is a great city to G-d among all the cities in Europe, a beacon to which all turn.” (Rabbi Sheftel son of the Shl”a, preface to Vavey HaAmudim)
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Description: Frankfurt am Main, 7 Adar, 5520 (1760). Written in Hebrew interspersed with Yiddish. Very large folded page with 3 handwritten sides. Size of each side: 62x34 cm. Condition: Minor stains and wear; several autographs faded or erased (some erased at the time that it was written, due to the passing of a member.) Preserved in a leather-bound antique case.
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<b>PROVENANCE</b>: Sotheby's, New York, Printed Books and Autograph Letters, February 25, 1976, lot 371.
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Published by the Author’s Son, Rabbi Leib HaKohen Katz
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One hundred and seventy questions and answers by Rabbi Ephraim HaKohen of Vilna, among the leading poskim of his generation, close friend of the Shach, and grandfather of the Chacham Tzvi.
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Rabbi Ephraim, who “illuminated the eyes of all Yisrael with his rulings and judgments” (as stated in the approbations), was widely sought after for halachic decisions, and his sefer came to be regarded as one of the foremost halachic works of his era.
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The sefer was printed by his son, “the chassid among the kohanim” (in the words of the Chida), the Gaon Rabbi Aryeh Yehudah Leib HaKohen, who wrote an important and interesting introduction, added extensive glosses to the main body, and composed a Kuntres Acharon at the end of the sefer — all of which are quoted in later poskim, including the Shvus Yaakov.
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Rabbi Leib traveled to Jerusalem in 1686 and dedicated an entire year almost exclusively to preparing the sefer for print. On his journey he obtained rare and distinguished approbations from the rabbanim of Jerusalem, Chevron and Tzfas, Rabbi Moshe Zacuto of Mantua, and the rabbanim of Prague.
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In another lot of this catalog appear rare autograph glosses by Rabbi Leib HaChassid himself; in one of them he defends his father’s position in Shaar Ephraim, the very sefer before us.
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<b>On leaf 47a, a small note has been affixed, containing five handwritten lines by an unidentified gaon. <br /><br /></b>
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<b>The author, Rabbi Ephraim HaKohen of Vilna</b> (c. 1616–1678), was one of the disciples of the Chelkas Mechokek, and dayan in Vilna alongside his friend the Shach, Rabbi Aharon Shmuel Kaidanover (Birkas HaZevach), and the Beis Hillel. In 1655 he fled the Chmielnicki massacres to Moravia, serving there in several communities (Mezritch Gadol, Prague, and others), and ultimately settled in the city of Óbuda (Buda) in Hungary, where he passed away.
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Among his noted descendants are his son, the chassid Rabbi Leib mentioned above, his grandson the Chacham Tzvi, and his great-grandson the Yaabetz, from whom emerged a distinguished lineage of Torah luminaries.
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<b>The author’s son, Rabbi Leib HaKohen Katz</b> (after 1648 – before 1732) was the youngest son of the renowned posek Rabbi Ephraim HaKohen of Vilna, and studied Torah under him with his nephew, Rabbi Tzvi Ashkenazi, the Chacham Tzvi (who was a grandson of Rabbi Ephraim).
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He immigrated to Jerusalem in 1686, where he studied under Rabbi Moshe Galanti (HaMagen), and became one of the leading figures of the Ashkenazic community there. He was the one who proposed appointing Rabbi Dovid Oppenheim of Nikolsburg and Prague as “Nasi of Eretz Yisrael.” He also signed the Jerusalem cherem against remnants of the Sabbateans, together with his father-in-law, the chief rabbi of Jerusalem, Rabbi Avraham Yitzchaki.
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<b>Sulzbach, 1688. First and rare edition. </b>
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<b>Page Count:</b> 114 leaves.
<b> Size: </b>31.3 cm.
<b>Condition: </b>Generally good; minor repair at margins of the first four leaves. Antique binding, slightly defective.
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<p>Hundreds of Handwritten Hagahos by the <b>Tosfos Shabbos</b></p>
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Hundreds (!!!) of annotations by the holy hand of Rabbi Refael Meisels, author of ‘Tosfos Shabbos’, and the Admor Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum, Av Beis Din of Sighet and author of ‘Yitav Lev’. This sefer also features one autographed annotation with the Rebbe’s famous acronym of YYT”V.
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These marginalia are written in the wide margins of a volume of the Maginei Eretz Edition of Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim (Amsterdam, 1754).
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In leaf 251, Rabbi Refael Meisels refers the learner to his sefer ‘Tosfos Shabbos’: “See my sefer T”S Ch. 276…”
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These hagahos were printed by the Tosfos Shabbos’ son Rabbi Chaim Meisels, who was one of the esteemed dayanim in Lvov, in ‘Sefer HaYakar’ (Lvov, 1795). Several of the hagahos were also included in the ‘Sefer HaPla’im’ which was printed in the later edition of ‘Tosfos Shabbos’ (Zolkova, 1807).
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<b>Rabbi Refael Meisels</b> (circa 1698-1778), Av Beis Din of Harkov and Paritzk and author of ‘Tosfos Shabbos’, was one of the legendary Rabbanim of 18th century Poland and among the greatest of the Achronim. He was a descendant of the Rema, Bach, and a grandson of the Chelkas Mechokek whom he refers to as “my grandfather” in the present hagahos (leaf 65b). He was renowned for his remarkable sanctity and abstention from worldly pleasures.
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Rabbi Refael gained worldwide acclaim for his magnum opus ‘Tosfos Shabbos’ which became one of the fundamental sefarim on Hilchos Shabbos and was studied extensively by Gedolei Yisrael, among them the Pri Megadim, Machatzis Hashekel, Mishnah Brurah and other notable poskim of the ensuing generations. His wisdom and righteousness was extolled by the contemporary Gedolim of his time such as the Noda B’Yehudah, Baal Haflaah and Rabbi Itzik’l of Hamburg who all inscribed remarkable haskamos to his sefer.
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The Maggid of Trisk, who authored the ‘Magen Avraham’, attested that the author of Tosfos Shabbos was “a holy man of G-d” and journeyed specially to pray at his tomb (Hakdamah to Toldos Yosef Landau, Av Beis Din of Iasi in Note #5.)
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<b>The Admor Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda Halberstam </b>(1808-1883) was the author of ‘Yitav Lev’ and founder of the illustrious Sighet Chassidic dynasty. He was the son of Rabbi Eliezer Nissan, Av Beis Din of Dhurovitch, who was the son of the Yismach Moshe. Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda Halberstam was renowned as one of the greatest Rebbes and poskim in Hungary. In 1858, he was appointed Av Beis Din of Sighet where he founded a famous yeshivah and was eventually crowned Rebbe, attracting thousands of avid chassidim from across Hungary and beyond. His famous sefarim include ‘Yitav Lev’, ‘Yitav Panim’, ‘Rav Tuv’ and ‘Shu”t Avnei Tzedek’.
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The margins of the present volume of Shulchan Aruch feature a handful of hagahos by his holy hand, chiddushim on the Magen Avraham, Taz and some corrections. On leaf 18a, the Yitav Lev sketched the shape of the letter shin in order to clarify the Magen Avraham’s intention. His autograph appears at the end of one annotation on leaf 29a. The title page of the sefer includes a list of kvittelach from his chassidim and talmidim.
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<b> Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim with Pri Chadash and Even HaOzer. Amsterdam, 1754. </b>
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<b>Page Count: </b>[2], 36, [4], 37-331.
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<p>Elementary principles and introduction to the wisdom of kabbalah received by Rabbi Chaim Vital from his spiritual master, the Ari za"l . Written in Oriental script by Rabbi Yosef Bahloul of Meknes and features a decorative title page with kabbalistic illustrations.</p>
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<p>The title page bears the scribe’s autograph and inscription: <b>“Written here in Meknes in the year…1812 by the youth who engages in sacred work, Yosef son of my wise and scholarly father Rabbi Yehuda Bahloul. May Hashem grant that I and my children should learn it, amen. Uncover my eyes, and I will gaze at the wonders of your Torah.” </b></p>
<p><b>It is likely that the scribe Rabbi Yosef Bahloul, was of the Rabbis in Meknes whose halachic rulings and signature appears in several works of his contemporaries.(see Malchi Rabanan pg 61)</b></p>
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<p><b>Otzros Chaim B’Arichah Maaravis</b></p>
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<p>The present manuscript of Otzros Chaim is a combination of two sefarim—Otzros Chaim and Mevo She’arim, with the majority drawing from the latter work. It was thus officially named Otzros Chaim B’Arichah Maaravis (Edited by the Rabbis of North Africa) and eventually printed as is in Livorno in 1849. The present sefer differs fundamentally from the original Otzros Chaim printed in Koritz, 1783, which was edited by Rabbi Yaakov Tzemach.</p>
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<p>This is a complete manuscript of the sefer and features the annotations of Magrabi kabbalists Rabbi Avraham Azoulay of Marrakech and Rabbi Avraham ben Musa.</p>
<p>Glosses by Magrabi sages were added by hand in “sidebars”. Some of these passages begin with the letters א"א, an acronym for “Amar Avraham (Avraham said)”, and the signature אב"מ, an acronym for Avraham ben Musa.<br /></p>
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<p>Between the title page and body of the sefer, the author included a full-page chart of the Sefiros presented in circles. On the next page, he writes, “This is what I discovered in the manuscripts of the G-dly kabbalist, the pious and humble Moreinu Harav Avraham Azoulay ztvk”l…This is what I found in Safra D’tzniusa” and includes the twenty-two principles of the wisdom of kabbalah presented in Safra D’tzniusa D’Yaakov (Amsterdam, 1669).</p>
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<p><b>Meknes, 1812. Page Count</b>: 1, [6], 2-140 leaves; 287 handwritten sides.<b> Page Size:</b> 21x15 cm. <b>Condition:</b> Water damage to upper margins, miniscule holes in margins; original Moroccan binding. Bibliography: See Hakdamos U’shearim L’Baal HaLeshem p. 59a; Y. Avivi; Binyan Ariel p. 59 note 31. </p>
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Hundreds (!!!) of annotations by the holy hand of Rabbi Refael Meisels, author of ‘Tosfos Shabbos’, and the Admor Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum, Av Beis Din of Sighet and author of ‘Yitav Lev’. This sefer also features one autographed annotation with the Rebbe’s famous acronym of YYT”V.
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These marginalia are written in the wide margins of a volume of the Maginei Eretz Edition of Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim (Amsterdam, 1754).
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In leaf 251, Rabbi Refael Meisels refers the learner to his sefer ‘Tosfos Shabbos’: “See my sefer T”S Ch. 276…”
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These hagahos were printed by the Tosfos Shabbos’ son Rabbi Chaim Meisels, who was one of the esteemed dayanim in Lvov, in ‘Sefer HaYakar’ (Lvov, 1795). Several of the hagahos were also included in the ‘Sefer HaPla’im’ which was printed in the later edition of ‘Tosfos Shabbos’ (Zolkova, 1807).
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Rabbi Refael gained worldwide acclaim for his magnum opus ‘Tosfos Shabbos’ which became one of the fundamental sefarim on Hilchos Shabbos and was studied extensively by Gedolei Yisrael, among them the Pri Megadim, Machatzis Hashekel, Mishnah Brurah and other notable poskim of the ensuing generations. His wisdom and righteousness was extolled by the contemporary Gedolim of his time such as the Noda B’Yehudah, Baal Haflaah and Rabbi Itzik’l of Hamburg who all inscribed remarkable haskamos to his sefer.
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The Maggid of Trisk, who authored the ‘Magen Avraham’, attested that the author of Tosfos Shabbos was “a holy man of G-d” and journeyed specially to pray at his tomb (Hakdamah to Toldos Yosef Landau, Av Beis Din of Iasi in Note #5.)
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<b>The Admor Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda Halberstam </b>(1808-1883) was the author of ‘Yitav Lev’ and founder of the illustrious Sighet Chassidic dynasty. He was the son of Rabbi Eliezer Nissan, Av Beis Din of Dhurovitch, who was the son of the Yismach Moshe. Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda Halberstam was renowned as one of the greatest Rebbes and poskim in Hungary. In 1858, he was appointed Av Beis Din of Sighet where he founded a famous yeshivah and was eventually crowned Rebbe, attracting thousands of avid chassidim from across Hungary and beyond. His famous sefarim include ‘Yitav Lev’, ‘Yitav Panim’, ‘Rav Tuv’ and ‘Shu”t Avnei Tzedek’.
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The margins of the present volume of Shulchan Aruch feature a handful of hagahos by his holy hand, chiddushim on the Magen Avraham, Taz and some corrections. On leaf 18a, the Yitav Lev sketched the shape of the letter shin in order to clarify the Magen Avraham’s intention. His autograph appears at the end of one annotation on leaf 29a. The title page of the sefer includes a list of kvittelach from his chassidim and talmidim.
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<b> Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim with Pri Chadash and Even HaOzer. Amsterdam, 1754. </b>
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<b>Page Count: </b>[2], 36, [4], 37-331.
<b>Page Size:</b> 33.5 cm. Wide margins.
<b>Condition:</b> Illustrated title and
<b>last 6 leaves of ‘Pri Chadash’</b> (leaves 332-338)
<b>missing</b>. Several of the hagahos are slightly cropped. Light damage to several leaves. New leather binding.
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