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Lot #    15214
Auction End Date    7/18/2006 12:25:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Matte Aaron
Title (Hebrew)    מטה אהרן
Author    [Haggadah - Illustrated - Kabalah]
City    Frankfort am Main
Publication Date    1710
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   [2] 2-44 ff., folio, 288:183 mm., usual light age, damp, food and wine stains, title extended, some marginal repairs. A good copy bound in later half cloth and paper boards.
          
Detailed
Description
   The Haggadah with Kabbalistic commentary and illustrations by R. Aaron b. Moses Teomim (c. 1630–1690), rabbi. Teomim was a member of the well-known Teomim-Fraenkel family of Vienna, which had settled in Prague. in 1670 he succeeded Samson Bacharach as rabbi of Worms. After refusing a call to Lissa in 1677, he accepted one from the Cracow community in 1687. At that time the French army was besieging Worms and it was only with the greatest difficulty that Teomim succeeded in leaving, and for three years he had to travel from place to place before reaching Cracow in March 1690. A few months later, on his way to a meeting of the Council of the Four Lands, he was arrested at Chmielnik on a Sabbath on the orders of a Polish nobleman, probably in order to blackmail the Cracow congregation. As a result of the ill-treatment to which he was subjected, he died before reaching prison.

Teomim's best-known work is a commentary on the Haggadah, Matteh Aharon ("the rod of Aaron"; Frankfort, 1678) which he wrote in fulfillment of a vow should he recover from a serious illness which had befallen him on Passover 1675. It has been reprinted many times (26 entries in Ya'ari's bibliography of Haggadot). Teomim also wrote Bigdei Aharon (Frankfort, 1710), sermons, and a volume of unpublished responsa, some of which are quoted in contemporary works. These writings found a severe critic in Jair Hayyim Bacharach, son of Samson. His motives were probably not disinterested, as he claimed the rabbinate, which had been held by both his father and grandfather. He accused Teomim of distorting the import of the Talmud and falsifying the true meaning of the aggadah.

          
Paragraph 2    (פי' על הגדה [של פסח, עם הפנים]) חברו ... ר' אהרן דרשן תאומים ... הי"ד, אשר הי' אב"ד ור"מ בק"ק וורמייזא ובק"ק קראקא והגלילות. עתה נדפס מחדש ע"י בן ... המחבר ... ר' ארי' יהוד[ה] ליב תאומים דיין המצוין בק"ק וראנקבורט דמיין ... בתוספו' פירש עפ"י הסוד. עם ציורים מפותחים בנחושת [על-פי אמשטרדם תנ"ה] ... זיין צו ביקקוממן אצל הדיין מוהר"ר ליב שנאפיר נר"ו בפראנקפורט דמיין.

שער מצויר. מעבר לשער: הקדמה לבן המחבר. כותב בין השאר: שכבר הי' נדפס שני פעמים. נדפס תחילה בשנת תל"ח, ושנית בשנת תנ"ה, בתוך: ספר חלוקא דרבנן. עי' למעלה. בדף כה-כח תרגום אשכנזי, באותיות מרובעות, לפיוטים "אדיר הוא", "אחד מי יודע" ו"חד גדיא".

הסכמה: ר' נפתלי הכהן, וראנקבורט דמיין, י תמוז ת"ע.

          
Reference
Description
   Yudlov 113; Yaari 71; CD-EPI 0188301; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
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Subject
Haggadah:    Checked
  
Kabbalah:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica