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Bidding Information
Lot #    11941
Auction End Date    11/1/2005 10:22:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Akedat Yizhok
Title (Hebrew)    עקידת יצחק
Author    [Ms. - Liturgy - Kabbalah] R. Benjamin b. Israel
City    [Persia]
Publication Date    1898
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [30] pp., 175:114 mm., wide margins on crisp sheets, beautiful Persian letters, 24 lines per page in 4 line stanzas, each page in penciled frame, signed and dated by Mattisyahu b. Juni, Scribe, bound in contemporary red morocco boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Poem in Hebrew with Judeo-Persian translation in verse, in the spirit of moralism. The Akedah to the moralists was a fertile text for the inculcation of religious and ethical values. Typical is the observation of R. Isaiah Horowitz (Shenei Luhot ha-Berit, Va-Yera, end) that the Akedah teaches that everything must be sacrificed to G-d, if needs be; how much more, then, must man be willing to give up his lusts for G-d. Moreover, whenever man has an opportunity of doing good, or refraining from evil, he should reflect that perhaps G-d is testing him at that moment as He tested Abraham. The poem is recited in the morning Rosh Ha'Shannah service by many North African communities.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Persia
  
Subject
Liturgy:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Judeo-Persian
  
Manuscript Type
Other:    Liturgy
  
Kind of Judaica