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Lot #    23121
Auction End Date    4/28/2009 10:15:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ozen Shmuel
Title (Hebrew)    אוזן שמואל
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Samuel de Avila
City    Amsterdam
Publisher    Solomon Proophs
Publication Date    1715
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [2], 70 ff., folio, 314:195 mm., wide margins, usual light age staining, old Sephardic hands on title. A very good copy bound in later boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Homilies and eulogies by R. Samuel b. Moses Avila (b. 1688), talmudic scholar in Morocco. Born in Meknes, R. Avila studied under R. Hayyim ibn Attar (the First), whose granddaughter he married, and under Joseph b. Bahatit. He began preaching publicly when he was about 20 years old. An affluent merchant, he left Meknes for Sale and Rabat because of the excessive taxes levied upon him by the community. Part of his work, Keter Torah (Amsterdam, 1725), which he calls "a guide for scholars and for the conduct of communal affairs," was written to prove that scholars should be exempt from communal taxation, probably as a result of his own experiences. At the end of this work is his commentary to tractate Nazir. He also wrote Keter Torah (Amsterdam, 1725?), and Me'il Shemu'el, still in manuscript.
          
Paragraph 2    ספר דרושים יסודתו מג' שרשים ... תשב אנוש ... שבתות יי ... חסד של אמת: אשר חיבר ... כמהר"ר שמואל די אבילה נר"ו בק"ק מכנאסא ...

מעבר לשער הסכמת "חכמי ודייני ק"ק פאס": ר' יהודה בן עטר, ר' אברהם אבן דנאן, ר' יעקב בכמהור"ר ראובן אבן צור, תע"ד.
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0105458; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Holland:    Checked
Other:    Morocco
  
Subject
Homiletics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica