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Lot #    23469
Auction End Date    4/28/2009 1:09:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Battei Kehunnah Parts I-II
Title (Hebrew)    בתי כהונה חלק א-ב
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Isaac Rappaport
City    Constantinople - Salonica
Publication Date    1736-54
          
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Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
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Physical
Description		    Only editions. Two volumes, [3], 132; 108, [7] ff., 293:202 mm.; [1], 90; 80; 30 ff., 303:198 mm., light age staining, stamps, wide margins. A very good set bound in matching modern cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Responsa, novellae, and homilies by R. Isaac b. Judah ha-Kohen Rappaport (d. 1755), rabbi in Jerusalem and Smyrna, and rabbinic emissary of Safed. His father emigrated from Lublin to Jerusalem, where R. Isaac studied at the yeshivah Beit Ya'akov Pereira, headed by R. Hezekiah da Silva. Because of the difficult circumstances then prevailing in Jerusalem, R. Isaac accepted the assignment of rabbinic emissary of Safed to Turkey and the Balkans (1702–12). Arriving in Constantinople in 1709, he joined R. Abraham Yizhaki, who was there as the emissary of Jerusalem, in issuing a proclamation against the Shabbatean, Nehemiah Hiyya Hayon, and engaged there in halakhic discussions with R. Aaron Alfandari. He arrived in Salonika in 1712. At the conclusion of his mission, because of the straitened circumstances in Jerusalem, he accepted the position of rabbi at Smyrna, a position he held for 36 years, though he originally intended to stay only a short time. In this capacity, he greatly assisted Erez Israel emissaries who visited Smyrna, and in 1732–33 saw through the press in Constantinople and Smyrna Zera Abraham, responsa by R. Abraham Yizhaki, then the chief rabbi in Jerusalem. In 1749 he returned to Jerusalem, where he became the chief rabbi. Unable to trace the old record book of the local takkanot, he published many of them from memory, but was unwilling to issue new ones of his own accord. A collection of his responsa, novellae, and homilies, entitled Battei Kehunnah, was published in two volumes, the first in Constantinople, 1736, and the second at Salonika, 1754.
          
Paragraph 2    ... אשר... בנה אנא זעירא מאנשי ירושלם... יצחק הכהן הי"ו... חלק א-ב.

חלק א: בית דין, דררא דאיסורא ודררא דממונא [שאלות ותשובות] ובית ועד לחכמים (לשונות המפרשים והפוסקים ראשונים ואחרונים), אזמיר, דפוס יונה אשכנזי ודוד חזן, בשנת ה'נה א'נכ'י ש'ל'ח' ל'כ'ם' א'ת א'ל'י'ה' לפ"ג [ה' תצ"ו]. [3], קלב; קח, [7] דף. בראש הספר הקדמת המחבר, "אשר כעת מתגורר פה אזמיר".

חלק ב: (בית דין... בית אבות [חידושי] הש"ס... בית המדרש... הדרושים שדרשתי)... והוגה על ידי ... יצחק הירירה (המכונה בכור). שאלוניקי, דפוס בצלאל הלוי, בסדר והכהן הגד'ול מאחי'ו אש'ר' [תקי"ד]. [1], צ; פ; ל דף. מעבר לשער הקדמת המחבר, "החותם תוככי ירושלם".

          
Reference
Description		    Rivkind, in: Reshummot, 4 (1925), 341–2; Frumkin-Rivlin, 3 (1929), 61–4; Yaari, Sheluhei, 423–5; EJ; CD-EPI 0168233
        
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18th Century:    Checked
  
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Homiletics:    Checked
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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