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Lot #		18092
Auction End Date		6/12/2007 10:46:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)

Title Information

Title (English)

Hayyim le-Rosh

Title (Hebrew)

חיים לראש

Author

[Haggadah] R. Hayyim Palache

City

Izmir (Smyrna)

Publisher

Jacob & Brothers Sons of Samuel Ashkenazi

Publication Date

1852

Collection Information

Independent Item

This listing is an independent item not part of any collection

Description Information

Physical
Description

First edition. 52; 112 ff., 205:134 mm., light usual age, food and wine staining, wide margins, few scattered wormholes. A very good copy bound in the original half leather and marbled paper boards, rubbed.

Detailed
Description

With the commentary of R. Hayyim Palache (also called by the acronym Habif; 1788–1869), rabbi and hakham bashi. Born in Izmir (Smyrna), Palache, a member of the distinguished Palache family, was the grandson on his mother's side of R. Joseph Raphael Hazzan (author of Hikrei Lev) and was a disciple of R. Joseph Gatenio (author of Beit Yizhak). He became av bet din in 1837. In 1847 he was appointed as rav sheni ("second rabbi") with the title dayyan, authorized to render judgement alone, and later was awarded the rabbinical title marbiz Torah. His position as marbiz Torah is attested by R. Hayyim Palache himself: "I, the marbiz Torah of this place, the town of Izmir... and its environs" (Male Hayyim: Ha-Takkanot, 42, 74), i.e., the neighboring towns of Izmir as well, such as Tiriya, Manissa, Bergama. In 1855 he was appointed as rav kolel ("chief of the rabbis"; Hayyim ba-Yad (1873), nos. 63, 74, 75). In 1865, at the age of 77, he was appointed hakham bashi of Izmir. R. Palache was a prolific writer. Many of his manuscripts were burned and a great number were not published, but 26 works were printed.

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... במילי דאגדה [של פסח, עם הפנים] ... וכללי ופרטי מכל דיני הסדר ... ככל חוקת הפסח ממה שהשיגה ידי ... חיים פאלאג'י ... בשולי השער ציון מספר הספר: 9.

מתוך הקדמת המחבר: חיים לראש ... יצא ראשונה אל מזבח הדפוס מהחיבורים אשר הציל אלהים לנו מהשריפה ... בליל יא לחדש שנחרב הבית [אב] שנת התר"א ... באותה לילה נשרף רובי תורתי (דף ד, ב). דף יט, ב: העתקה מכתבי ... רבינו שמשון מגיד מאוסטרופולייא ... סוד ... הסימנים דצ"ך עד"ש באח"ב.

Reference
Description

Yudlov 959; Yaari 704; CD-EPI 0119293; EJ

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Listing Classification

Period

19th Century:

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Location

Greece-Turkey:

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Subject

Haggadah:

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Characteristic

First Editions:		Checked
Language:		Hebrew

Manuscript Type

Kind of Judaica