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Lot #    23468
Auction End Date    4/28/2009 1:09:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Semiha Le'Hayyim
Title (Hebrew)    סמיכה לחיים
Author    [First Ed.] R. Hayyim Palache
City    Salonica
Publisher    Orphans of Bezalel Ashkenazi
Publication Date    1826
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. [3], 154 ff., folio, 302:210 mm., wide margins, light age and damp staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary half leather and marbled paper over boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Responsa on the four parts of the Shulhan Arukh by R. Hayyim Palache (also called by the acronym Habif; 1788–1869), rabbi and hakham bashi. Born in Izmir (Smyrna), Palache, a member of the distinguished Palache family, was the grandson on his mother's side of R. Joseph Raphael Hazzan (author of Hikrei Lev) and was a disciple of R. Joseph Gatenio (author of Beit Yizhak). He became av bet din in 1837. In 1847 he was appointed as rav sheni ("second rabbi") with the title dayyan, authorized to render judgement alone, and later was awarded the rabbinical title marbiz Torah. His position as marbiz Torah is attested by R. Hayyim Palache himself: "I, the marbiz Torah of this place, the town of Izmir... and its environs" (Male Hayyim: Ha-Takkanot, 42, 74), i.e., the neighboring towns of Izmir as well, such as Tiriya, Manissa, Bergama. In 1855 he was appointed as rav kolel ("chief of the rabbis"; Hayyim ba-Yad (1873), nos. 63, 74, 75). In 1865, at the age of 77, he was appointed hakham bashi of Izmir. Palache was a prolific writer. Many of his manuscripts were burned and a great number were not published, but 26 works were printed.
          
Paragraph 2    ... שאלות ותשובות על סדר ד טורים... ואתיא מבנייא... מהנשר הגדול הגאון מז"ה [מורי זקני הרב רפאל יוסף חזן] ז"ל... דברי... חיים פאלאג'י...

בסוף הספר השמטות מספריו בית אבות, לב חיים ושו"ת הרשב"א. הסכמת רבני אזמיר: ר' רפאל אשכנזי ור' דוד אמאדו, שליש ראשון לחדש חשון תקפ"ו.

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0156390; EJ
        
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Greece-Turkey:    Checked
  
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Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica