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Bidding Information
Lot #    21861
Auction End Date    11/18/2008 10:44:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Marpe la-Ezem
Title (Hebrew)    מרפא לעצם
Author    R. Isaac ben Solomon Farhi
City    Baghdad
Publisher    Hazin
Publication Date    1892
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    68 ff., 160:105 mm., usual light age staining, nice margins. A good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Ethical work by R. Isaac ben Solomon Farhi (1782-1853) dayyan in Jerusalem, belonged to the distinguished family of financiers in Damascus during the 18th and 19th centuries, who held the position of sarraf (banker) in the province of Damascus during the 1740s and possibly even earlier. R. Farsi was born in Safed. The Jerusalem rabbinate sent him to Europe to raise funds for the poor; it was while he was an emissary that he printed many of his books in Livorno. In addition to Matok la-Nefesh and Matok mi-Devash, R. Farhi was also the author of Tuv Yerushalayim (Jerusalem, 1842), Zekhut ha-Rabbim (Constantinople, 1829), Imrei Binah (Bilagrado, 1837), Zekhut u-Mishor (Smyrna, 1850), Zuf Devash (Livorno, 1849), Shevet Mishor (Belgrade, 1837), Marpe la-Ezem (Constantinople, 1830), Musar Haskel (Constantinople, 1830), and Minei Metikah (Livorno, 1848).
          
Paragraph 2    בראשו: דבר אל הקוראים מאת המו"ל, שלמה בכור חוצין.
          
Reference
Description		    EJ; JE; Yaari, Sheluhei 716-18.; CD-EPI 0159072
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Iraq
  
Subject
Other:    Ethics
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica