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Bidding Information
Lot #    22514
Auction End Date    1/20/2009 10:04:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Shevet Mussar (Rod of Admonition)
Title (Hebrew)    שבט מוסר
Author    [Kabbalah] R. Elijah ha-Kohen ha-Itamari
City    Jerusalem
Publisher    Jehiel Brill, Mical ha-Kohen; Joel Solomon
Publication Date    1863
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [2], 58; [59]-130 ff., 208:156 mm., usual light age staining, wide margins. A very good copy bound in modern half leather and cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Kabbalistic, moral, and ethical text by R. Elijah b. Abraham Solomon ha-Kohen ha-Itamari (<1640-1729). He was born in Smyrna, where he was educated by R. Benjamin Melamed (he recods the eulogy in Midrash Elijah), a leading Rabbi of Izmir (Smyrna) and became a homiletic preacher. R. Elijah's opposition to Shabbetai Zevi and his associates earned him much grief at home. He apparently cared for orphans as his writings display an extremely detailed knowledge of the physical and psychological suffering of the poor. A prolific writer he is best remembered for his ethical work Shevet Mussar (Rod of Admonition), which has seen numerous editions and been translated into many languages. The first edition of Shevet Mussar was issued in Constantinople in 1712.

This edition features two title pages, the first inside an illustrated architectural frame, with an illustration of the Tomb of Zechariah. The other inside a decorative frame with an illustration of the Western Wall. Two parts. The second part has its own title page in which there is an illustration of a modern printing press descending from heaven and surrounded by clouds [S. Halevi photographed the illustrated "machine" in the introduction to her book, page 27] On the reverse side of the title page is the approbations of Jerusalem rabbis, R. Moses Judah Loeb of Kutna, R. Meir Auerbach, R. Nahum Levi of Shadik and R. Hayyim David Hazan.
          
Paragraph 2    ... ופירוש המלות החמורות ודברי קשה ההבנה הצגנו בסוף כל עמוד בציוני א"ב ... חלק [א]-ב. דפוס יחיאל ברי"ל, מיכל הכהן, יואל משה בהר"מ [שאלאמאן], שנת חשך ש'ב'ט'ו' שונא בנו ואוהבו שחרו מ'ו'ס'ר'

שני שערים. הסכמות רבני ירושלים: ר' משה יהודה ליב ב"ר בנימין [זילבערבערג מקוטנא], ר' מאיר אוירבאך ור' נחום בהרמ"א [אברהם לוי] , מנחם[-אב תרכ"ג; ר' חיים דוד חזן, א תמוז תרכ"ג.
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0120646; Shoshana Halevi, Jerusalem Imprints 85; Vinograd Jerusalem 124; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Ethics
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica