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Bidding Information
Lot #    21442
Auction End Date    8/12/2008 12:50:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Menuhah ve-Hayyim
Title (Hebrew)    îðåçä åçééí
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Masi’ad Madar
City    Djerba
Publisher    Boaz Haddad
Publication Date    1962
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 32, 48, 10, 20 ff. octavo 205:125 mm., light age staining, wide margins. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Only edition of these discourses on the events of life by R. Masi’ad Madar. The title page describes Menuhah ve-Hayyim describes the book as being comprised, in the first part, of ethical reproof concerning the paths of life. The second part is eulogies on the righteous. Menuhah ve-Hayyim. Appended to the book is Geulat ha-Erez. The verso of the title page has a photograph of R. Madar (1928-59), followed by approbations from rabbis in Djerba, and an introductions from R. Madar’s students. Next is a list of those who assisted in publication and then the text, set in a single column. The first discourse, there are twelve, is for Yom Kippur, the eleventh is for the month of Tamuz, and twelve was for the month of Av but lost and could not be found. These are followed by the eulogies, numbered thirteen through forty-four, another lengthy discourse, and Geulat ha-Erez, which are massiot from Alarabi.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    North Africa
  
Subject
Homiletics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica