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Lot #    11589
Auction End Date    9/20/2005 10:18:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Berit Avot
Title (Hebrew)    ברית אבות
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Abraham ben Judah Coriat
City    Leghorn
Publisher    Elijah ben Amozag
Publication Date    1862
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   Only edition. 6, 131, [1] ff., 300:195 mm., wide margins, usual light age and damp staining, old hand. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description
   Discourses, halakhic novellae, and responsa by R. Abraham ben Judah Coriat of the distinguished Moroccan rabbinic Coriat family. The title page notes the contents and the author’s antecedents together with the works they wrote. It is dated, “And give the blessing ברכת (622 = 1862) of Abraham to you” (Genesis 28:4) . There is an approbation from R. Joseph Almaliach and R. Joseph ben Aaron Almaliach of Mogador comprised of twelve paragraphs, each concluding with Abraham. Other approbations are from R. Moses Kohen, also of Mogador; and from rabbis from Tunis and from Livorno (Leghorn). Berit Avot is comprised of the discourses on the weekly parashat with discourses for festivals such as Purim and for Shabbat Teshuvah and (1a-60b), followed by Likkutim and Remazim, Likkutim on Yoreh De’ah, Even ha-Ezer, and responsa. The volume concludes with an index and Anaf Ez Avot.

The Coriat family is counted among the leading rabbinic families of Morocco.Originating in Marrakesh, the first known member was Isaac (1) Coriat (1580), dayyan of the community, kabbalist, and the author of works of which only fragments, published in the writings of his descendants, have survived. Solomon edited the Azharot of Isaac b. Reuben al-Bargeloni (Leghorn, 1650). The pious and learned Abraham (1) settled in Tetuan, where his son Judah (1; d. 1788) was dayyan. Those of his works which survived the sack of the city in 1790 were published in a collection under the titles Tofah Saviv, a selection of his father's religious decisions, and Nofekh Sappir (Pisa, 1812). His son Isaac (2; d. Jerusalem, 1805) was the author of Ma'aseh Rokem (Pisa, 1806). Judah's second son Abraham (2; d. 1806) was dayyan at Tetuan, Mogador, Gibraltar, and Leghorn. His work Zekhut Avot (Pisa, 1812) contains information on the Jews of Morocco and Leghorn. Abraham's son Judah (2; d. 1787 in TetuFn) wrote Ma’or ve-Shemesh (Leghorn, 1838), a collection of extracts of various kabbalistic works, including some of the novellae written by his maternal grandfather, Judah (Abenatar) Attar, rabbi of Fez. Abraham (3), author Berit Avot, was the son of Judah (2), and served as av bet din in Mogador, where his poems and liturgical songs were destroyed during the bombardment of the city in 1844. His son, Isaac (3; d. 1905), merchant, philanthropist, and scholar, wrote Nahalat Avot (1899) on various religious questions and on the practices and customs of the Mogador community. Nissim, son of Isaac (3), represented Holland at the court of the sultan at Marrakesh at the beginning of the 20th century. Samuel Coriat (d. 1853) was farmer-general of revenues and government treasurer in TetuFn. He played an important role in the economic life of Morocco from 1818 as purveyor to the sultan. His nephew Isaac (d. 1890) settled in Mogador in 1862 on the instructions of the government, and he became one of the five merchants of the sultan. Isaac distinguished himself during the Spanish-Moroccan war of 1859–60 by his devotion to public welfare.

          
Paragraph 2    ... דרושים (על התורה) ... אשר פעל ועשה מדי שבת בשבתו (ופי' ההגדה ... לקוטים על אורח חיים ... יורה דעה ... אבן העזר ... ליקוטים על הש"ס [ועוד]) ... ואתם עמם שאלות ותשובות (על חושן המשפט) ... תקנות ותורתן של ראשונים (אשר נהגו ותקנו הרבנים המגורשים מקאסטילייא ז"ל ובכללם תקנות טוליטו[לה], ועוד) ... כל אלה פעולת ... ר' אברהם קורייאט בן ... ר' יהודה ... נין ונכד ... ר' אברהם רפאל קורייאט... העולה על מזבח הדפוס על ידי ... אח טוב להרב המחבר זלה"ה ... ר' יצחק קורייאט ... (המדפיס ... בן דודתו) ... אב"א (אליהו בן אמוזג). שנת ויתן לך את ב'ר'כ'ת' אברהם

דף עו-עח: קיצור התקנות וחי[דושי] ... ר' רפאל בירדוגו. דף עח,ב: קצת דינים מועתקים מספר בית יהודה למהר"י [יהודה] עייאש זצ"ל [ליוורנו תק"ו] בענין השותפות. דף עט,ב-פ: תקנות חכמי קאסטילייא זלה"ה, אשר קבץ ואסף הרב (רפאל בירדוגו) זלה"ה ואני הצעיר באתי אחריו לסדרם ולכתבם בקיצור ... דף פ,ב-פג,א: מנהגי בדיקת הריאה מהרב (רפאל בירדוגו) זלה"ה, שסדר מנהגי רבני קאסטילייא זלה"ה והוסיף עליהם הגהות וחידושים. [1] דף: ענף עץ אבות; תשובה בענין אכילה בבית המדרש, מאת ר' אליהו בן אמוזג.

הקדמות [הסכמות]: ר' יוסף אלמאליח ור' יוסף ב"ר אהרן אלמאליח, מוגאדור, כ סיון תרכ"א; ר' משה הכהן, אצוירא דאתקריאת מוגאדור, סיון תרכ"א; רבני תוניס: ר' נתן בורג'יל, ר' אהרן הכהן טנוג'י, ר' אברהם הכהן יצחקי, ר' אברהם חג'אג', ור' שלום חי בשמוט, מנחם [אב] תרכ"א; ר' אברהם ברוך פיפרנו, ליוורנו, אדר-א תרכ"ב; ר' אברהם ב"ר יוסף אלמאליח, תוניס, מנחם-[אב] תרי"ח; ר' אליהו בן אמוזג, יג אדר-א תרכ"ב.

          
Reference
Description
   Benjacob, Ozar, 33, no. 635d.; EJ; CD-EPI 0201020; J. M. Toledano, Ner ha-Ma'arav (1911), 104, 107, 192, 200–1; J. Ben-Naim, Malkhei Rabbanan (1931), 9b, 45a, 75a; C. Didier, Promenade au Maroc (1844), 149–50; I. Benwalid, Va-Yomer Yizhak, 2 (Leghorn, 1855), nos. 151, 153; MiIge, Maroc, 2 (1961), 107, 140, 560; 3 (1962), 35; 4 (1963), 210.
        
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
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Homiletics:    Checked
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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