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Bidding Information
Lot #    10101
Auction End Date    4/19/2005 11:17:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Shem Yosef
Title (Hebrew)    שם יוסף
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Israel Hayyim Joseph Eliakim
City    Salonica
Publisher    Raphael Yuda Kalai & Mordecai Nahman
Publication Date    1769
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [1], 200 ff., 290:198 mm., wide margins, usual age and damp staining, title margin extended affecting text on verso completed in facimile. A good copy bound in modern half cloth and marbled paper boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Novellae on Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah by R. Israel Hayyim Joseph Eliakim (1791). The title page has a decorative frame comprised of rows of florets. It is dated with the verse, “they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord returns[to Zion]” (Isaiah 52:8). The text states that it is his poor man’s meal offering that he wrote in Sofia. The verso of the title page has his introduction (apology) followed by the text. Shem Yosef is set in two columns in rabbinic type excepting headers and initial words. The text begins with Yesod ha-Torah, followed by Hilkhot Talmud Torah, Berakhot, Eruvin, festivals (Yom Tov), Hametz, Megillah, Nedarim, and continues, encompassing marital laws,shehita, business laws and deposits. A comprehensive detailed commentary on the Mishneh Torah. The author emigrated to Jerusalem where he passed on.
          
Paragraph 2    ...אשר חיברתי פה עיר תהילה סופ'יאה יע"א ... חיים יוסף אליקים ...

בשנת אשר עין ב'עין י'ר'א'ו' ב'ש'ו'ב' ה' חידושים על ספר משנה תורה להרמב"ם.

          
Reference
Description		    Vin Salonika 338; Zedner p. 220; CD-EPI 0110486
        
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Greece-Turkey:    Checked
  
Subject
Halacha:    Checked
Novellae:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica