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Lot #    12156
Auction End Date    11/1/2005 12:01:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Tevu’at Yekev
Title (Hebrew)    תבואת יקב
Author    [Only Ed. - Authographed - Avot] R. Abraham Belais
City    Leghorn
Publisher    Sa’adon Molkho & Partners
Publication Date    1820
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [8], 66 ff., folio, 285:183 mm., wide margins, old hand on title, light age staining. A very good copy bound in modern cloth boards.
          
Paragraph 1    Dedication copy - With lenghty inscription by author on title.
          
Detailed
Description		    Discourses in the weekly Torah reading followed by novellae by R. Abraham ben Shalom Belais. The text of the title page begins, מי “Who would have said to Abraham” (Genesis 21:7) “the voice of the lad” (Genesis 21:17) “stood in the entrance of the gate” (Judges 18:17) “had scarcely gone out” (Genesis 27:30) “from the windy storm and the tempest” (Psalms 9:9). Concerning the references in the opening paragraph see the details of R. Belais’ turbulent life below. Each of the following six paragraphs also begin מי “Who”. The title page is dated with the verse, “[He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver]; nor he who loves abundance with gain; [this also is vanity]” (Ecclesiastes 5”9). Therfe are a large number of approbations from rabbis in such diverse l;coations as Constantinople, Alexandria, Amsterdam, Turin, and Leghorn. R. Belais’ introduction is followed by the text, in two columns in rabbinic type. After the Torah portion, which concludes on 50a, is commentary on biblical books the Haggadah, and novellae on tractates and the Rambam. Tevu’at Yekev is printed on heavy paper.

R. Abraham ben Shalom Belais (1773–1853) was a Tunisian rabbi. At one time treasurer to the bey of Tunis, he had to leave the country following business reverses and settled in Jerusalem. For a time he was rabbi in Algiers, then, moving to Europe, he managed to secure the patronage of persons high in public life. He was appointed by the king of Sardinia rabbi of Nice, against the wishes of the community, with whom he promptly quarreled. In 1840, he went to London where before long he again got into financial difficulties and quarreled with the authorities. He was ultimately given a minor communal office and sat occasionally on the bet din. He published a large number of books, apart from his sycophantic odes in honor of European crowned heads and other influential persons. The following deserve mention: Yad Avishalom (1829), on Orah Hayyim; Perah Shushan Beit Levi (1844), sermons with English translation; Petah ha-Bayit (1846), commentary and alphabetical index to part of the Shulhan Arukh; responsa Afrot Tevel (1850); and an English translation of Ecclesiastes with his commentary. His undoubted scholarship was marred by his serious defects of character.

          
Paragraph 2    ...ממפרי"שי הפרש"ה ... אנכי נטעתיו ... אברהם בן ... כמה"ר שלום בלעיש ...

חידושים על התורה, ליקוטים על איכה, אסתר, יהושע, הושע, תהלים ועל הגדה של פסח; מעט חידושים על ברכות, שבת, מועד קטן, כתובות, חולין, סנהדרין, אבות וכריתות; חידושים על הרמב"ם ותשובה בעניין קידושין. עם הסכמות דייני קושטנדינא: ר' חיים קמחי, ר' ישראל אלאטיף ור' משה ב"ר אליהו אקשינו, אדר תקע"ז; ר' מתתיה לבית הלוי ב"ר משה זכות, אליסנדריא, אדר תקע"ט; ר' דניאל ב"ר דוד הכהן ד' אזיוירו, אמשטרדם, ג אלול תקע"ט; ר' אברהם די קולוניא ור' מנחם מנדיל דייץ, פאריש, פ' לך לך תק"ף; ר' אליה אהרן ב"ר יוסף שלום לאטאש, טורינו, יז כסלו תק"ף; ר' יצחק ברכיה סנגויניטי (שיר); ר' מתתיה לבית הלוי ב"ר משה זכות, אליסאנדריא דילא פאליא, אדר תקע"ט; רבני מנטובה: ר' מצליח משה אריאני, ר' יעקב ב"ר ישראל גדליה קאזיס, ר' שמואל חיים ב"ר דוד נפתלי סיניגאליה ור' אלישמע מאיר פאדובאגי, ה שלח תק"ף; רבני ליוורנו: ר' שלמה ב"ר דוד חיים מלאך, ר' עמרם עמאר ור' מרדכי נסים, פ' שופטים תק"ף; ר' שמואל, אב"ד בק"ק אשכנזים, אמשטרדם, ה אלול תקע"ט.

          
Reference
Description		    EJ; JE; Vin Leghorn; CD-EPI 0112893
        
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Italy:    Checked
  
Subject
Novellae:    Checked
Other:    Avot
  
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First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
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