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Lot #    12571
Auction End Date    12/20/2005 11:50:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Kol Shmu’el
Title (Hebrew)    קול שמואל
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Samuel ben Mordecai Conforte
City    Salonica
Publisher    R. Mordecai Nahmun & Hayyim Leon Kalai
Publication Date    1787
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [3], 117 ff. folio 314:190 mm., wide margins, title margin tear, light age and damp staining. A good copy bound in contemporary half leather and marbled paper boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Commentary on the weekly Torah readings by R. Samuel ben Mordecai Conforte. The title page has a border constructed from multiple rows of florets typical of Salonika, and states that it is a poor person’s offering, who, with his iniquities, approached, “oppressed, but humbled himself” (cf. Isaiah 53:7). The Torah here was written partly in R. Conforte’s birthplace קייסטינדיל and partly in Sofia, where he was Rosh Yeshivah. It further states that everyone is obligated, the smaller person according to his ability, the greater according to his ability, and everyone takes his portion in the ma’amud ha-kodesh. It is dated, “[She is a tree of life to those who lay hold on her]; and happy מאושר (547 = 1787) is every one who holds her fast” (Proverbs 3:18). Kol Shmu’el has approbations from R. Joseph Eliakim, R. Reuben ben Jacob of Sofia, and R. Abraham ben Eliezer Magir of Jerusalem. The last approbation is comproised of eight paragraphs, each beginning Kol and concluding Shmu’el. Next is R. Conforte’s introduction, paragraphs beginning הלא and concluding tov. The text is in two columns in rabbinic type. Paashat generally begin with a midrash or gemara which is then explicated. The volume concludes with an index of sources. R. Conforte served as rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Sofia, which today is capital of Bulgaria.
          
Paragraph 2    ... אשר טפחתי ורביתי... מקצתו בארץ מולדתי קייוסטינדיל... ומקצתו בעיר... סופייא ... והוא פי' על התורה [לפי סדר הפרשיות]... מאסף... לקוטי בתר לקוטי... אני... שמואל בן... ר' מרדכי קונפורטי תהא נשמתו צרורה באור פני מלך חיים... בשנת ותומכיה מ'א'ו'ש'ר'

דף נא,ב-נג: פרשת תזריע. ממורי ורבי... ר' יעקב טיבה נר"ו. דף קג,ב-קיא: לקוטים. כוללים גם שאלות ותשובות. הסכמות: ר' יוסף אליקים, שלהי טבת תקמ"ו; ר' ראובן ב"ר יעקב, סופיאה, שלהי ניסן תקמ"ז; ר' אברהם ב"ר אליעזר [מאג'אר] מירושלים.

          
Reference
Description		    BE kof 519; CD-EPI 0162947
        
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18th Century:    Checked
  
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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Kind of Judaica