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Lot #    23899
Auction End Date    7/7/2009 10:11:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Binah le-Ittim
Title (Hebrew)    áéðä ìòúéí
Author    [First Ed.] R. Azariah Figo (Picho)
City    Venice
Publisher    Francesco Vicheri
Publication Date    1648
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. 4, 200, [12] ff., 262:187 mm., usual light age and damp staining, old hands, final 4 index ff. backed in outer margin affecting text. A good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Important homiletics by R. Azariah Figo (Picho; 1579–1647), Italian rabbi and preacher, was born in Venice. In his youth he devoted himself largely to secular studies, but later, regretting the time he had spent “loving the handmaiden” and “neglecting the mistress,” he applied himself wholly to rabbinic studies. At the age of 28, he was appointed rabbi of Pisa. He returned to Venice in 1627, and became preacher to the Sephardi community. R. Figo leaned toward a strict interpretation of Jewish law. He opposed the establishment of a theater in the ghetto of Venice and criticized the members of his community for usury, flaunting their wealth, internecine wrangling, laxity in ritual observances, and sexual irregularities, R. Figo was active in redeeming Jewish captives, and defended the Marranos, declaring them to be Jews. His most important work is his Binah le-Ittim (Venice, 1648), a collection of sermons delivered in Venice. They are based on the festivals and fasts of the Jewish calendar, and also include sermons based on Avot on such topics as charity and education. Since its first publication it has been reprinted 50 times. Some of his responsa are found in the Devar Shemu'el (1702) of Samuel Aboab. He died in Rovigo.
          
Paragraph 2    ñôéøú-ãôéí îùåáùú. áøàù äñôø ä÷ãîåú îàú äîâéä, ø' éò÷á á"ø îùä äìåé éåæáéì, åø' îùä á"ø îøãëé æëåú.
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0157429; EJ; Vinograd, Venice 1276
        
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Listing Classification
Period
17th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Italy:    Checked
  
Subject
Homiletics:    Checked
  
Kabbalah:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica