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Lot #    23655
Auction End Date    6/9/2009 11:30:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Shoshanat ha-Amukim
Title (Hebrew)    שושנת העמקים
Author    R. Moses Alshekh
City    Offenbach
Publisher    Zeligman Reiz
Publication Date    1717
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1], 88 ff., folio, 361:226 mm., extra wide margins, light damp staining, several small wormholes affecting letters. A very good copy bound in modern cloth over boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Commentary to the five scrolls by R. Moses b. Hayyim Alshekh (c. 1520-1593), rabbi and Bible commentator, born in Adrianople or Damascus. He studied in Salonika under R. Joseph Taitazak and R. Joseph Caro, and then emigrated to Erez Israel, settling in Safed, where he gained prominence as an halakhic authority, a teacher in two talmudic academies, and a preacher. He was active in communal affairs and was a member of the rabbinical court of R. Joseph Caro, who conferred upon him the full ordination which had been reintroduced by R. Jacob Berab. The Alshekh in turn ordained in 1590 R. Hayyim Vital, who was his disciple in halakhah. His major field of interest was halakhah but, acceding to requests to preach on Sabbaths, in the course of preparing his sermons he occupied himself also with Bible exegesis. He also engaged in the study of the Kabbalah, from which he derived the fundamentals of his religious philosophy. According to one tradition, R. Isaac Luria sought to dissuade him from pursuing kabbalistic studies. About 1590 The Alshekh visited the Jewish communities of Syria and Turkey, and perhaps also of Persia, in the interests of Safed Jewry. He also sent an appeal on behalf of the Safed community to Italy and other countries. The last information about him was from Damascus. He participated there in a rabbinical court session in the spring of 1593. He died soon after at a venerable age.
          
Paragraph 2    ביאור מגלת שיר השירים [עם הפנים] למרנא ורבנא... ר' משה אלשיך זצלה"ה... אשר העלה ואשר הביא לדפוס... ר' יוסף יוזבל בה"ה המנוח פ"ו הר"ר צבי הירש פרנקפורטר סג"ל זצ"ל מק"ק פירדא...

כולל גם: עיני משה, על רות; דברים נחומים, על איכה; דברים טובים, על קהלת; משאת משה, על אסתר.

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0304617; EJ; Rosanies, Togarmah, 3 (1938), 276 ff.
        
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
  
Kabbalah:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica