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Second edition, first revised. [2], 42, 45-68 ff., 303:185 mm., nice margins, usual age and damp staining, small tear in tiutle affecting several words, repairedm old hands on title. A good copy bound in modern cloth boards. |
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Sermons delivered while the Author was in Smyrna. R. Nissim Solomon b. Abraham Algazi (1610?–c. 1683), grandson of Joseph de Segovia Benveniste, was born in Borsa. He studied under his father and the poet R. Joseph Ganso, as well as R. Joseph Sasson and R. Meir de Boton at their yeshivah in Gallipoli. R. Algazi settled in Jerusalem in 1635, but was in Smyrna in 1646 - apparently in order to publish some of his works. Here he remained and was considered one of the city's outstanding scholars. He founded a bet midrash whose students included his son-in-law, R. Aaron Lapapa, and R. Hayyim b. Menahem Algazi, later rabbi of Rhodes.
R. Algazi opposed Shabbetai Zevi and his followers; together with his son-in-law and other scholars, he excommunicated Shabbetai Zevi and stated that he deserved the death penalty. Compelled to flee and hide outside the city, when Shabbetai Zevi's apostasy became known (1666) he returned to Smyrna and resumed his position. R. Algazi assumed the additional name Nissim on recovering from a serious illness contracted during his travels. He returned to Jerusalem about 1670, and by 1673 was head of the local bet din. R. Algazi achieved a reputation for his saintliness and was reputed as a miracle worker.
Among his many works are: Yavin Shemu'ah (Venice, 1639), a commentary to the Halikhot Olam of Jeshua b. Joseph and to Sefer Kelalei ha-Talmud of Joseph Caro with additions entitled Halikhot Eli (Smyrna, 1663); Gufei Halakhot; (ibid., 1675); Ahavat Olam (Constantinople, 1642), the first of four volumes of homiletics; Razuf Ahavah and Appiryon Shelomo (Verona, 1649), a commentary to the homiletical passages of the tosafists; Ta'avah la-Einayim (Salonika, 1655), an elucidation of difficult talmudic passages in the Ein Ya'akov of R. Jacob ibn Habib, with the addition of passages omitted by him; and Lehem Setarim, on the tractate Avodah Zarah (Venice, 1664); his Ziknat Shelomo, a commentary on the Ittur of R. Isaac b. Abba Mari, was never published. |
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... ועכשיו עשינו נוסף על הראשוני' שלא היו מפתחות רק עד פרשת ויקרא והוספנו עליהם המפתחות עד גמירא: הובא לבית הדפוס ע"י ... מהור"ר שמעון כ"ץ שמש ונאמן דקהלתינו ק"ק אשכנזים באמשטרדם ... והוגה ... ונגמרו המפתחות ע"י אחיו ... כהר"ר יצחק כ"ץ משווערין ...
מעבר לשער הסכמות רבני אמשטרדם. ר' ארי' ליב, כט תשרי ת"ע, ור' שלמה אאיליאן, ב מרחשון ת"ע. |
