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Lot #		19474
Auction End Date		1/8/2008 10:14:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)

Title Information

Title (English)

Yismah Levav

Title (Hebrew)

ישמח לבב

Author

[Only Ed.] R. Isaiah Simeon Hayyim Obadia

City

Djerba - Sefrou, Morocco

Publisher

Bouaz Haddad

Publication Date

1952

Collection Information

Independent Item

This listing is an independent item not part of any collection

Description Information

Physical
Description

Only edition. [8, portrait], 134, [1] ff., folio, 305:200 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards.

Paragraph 1

Includes [1] p., 307:209mm., letter of introduction and eulogy for the Author by his two sons, R. David and R. Maimon.

Detailed
Description

Halakhic novellae (responsa) on all four parts of the Shulhan Arukh by R. Isaiah Simeon Hayyim b. Masud Obadia [Sephardi Tahor] (1871-1952). The title page informs that it is halakhic rulings on various subjects arranged according to the order of the Arba’ah Turim, “as G-d has graced me, not by my sword, nor by my bow, ‘the bows of the mighty men’” (I Samuel 2:4). It is dated, “Moses commanded us a Torah תורה צוה (712 = 1952)” (Deuteronomy 33:4). The verso of the title page has a brief statement from the the author and informs that the book can be purchased from Rebbi David Obadia Rabbin Delegue, Sefrou (Maroc). Next is an oval photograph of the author, giving his birth date as 28 Iyyar 5632 (Friday, May 19, 1871). R. Obadia’s lengthy introduction follows, beginning with verse, prefetoru remarks from R. Jacob Hai Zarihan, and the author’s son R. David Obadia [Sephardi Tahor]. There is a list of the sponsors of publication, and then the text in two columns in rabbinic type. There are eighteen simanim for Orah Hayyim, forty six for Yoreh De’ah, forty for Even Ha-Ezer, and twenty one for Hoshen Mishpat, all detailed, reflecting R. Obadia’s great learning and erudition. There is a detailed index at the end of the volume.

Paragraph 2

והוא פסקים [תשובות] וכללי דינים... מסודרים על סדר ד' טורים... נאם... ישועה שמעון חיים עובדיה (המכונה ישמ"ח)... מעי"ת צפ'רו... דפוס חדאד-עידאן-כהן-צבאן, שנת ת'ו'ר'ה' צ'ו'ה' לנו משה

דף [4,ב-5,ב] מרגניתא טבא, חידושי תורה מאת ר' יעקב חי זריהן, טבריא. דף [6,א-6,ב] בן יכבד אב... פרפרת אחת... מאת ר' דוד עובדיה , בן המחבר, שהוסיף הערות מפוזרות בספר.

Reference
Description

CD-EPI 0155505

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