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Lot #    24105
Auction End Date    7/7/2009 11:52:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Iggeret Shemu'el
Title (Hebrew)    אגרת שמואל
Author    R. Samuel Uceda
City    Amsterdam
Publisher    Nathaniel Foa
Publication Date    1712
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    59 ff., 205:168 mm., nice margins, age and damp staining. A good copy bound in modern boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Commentary on Ruth includes sayings of early Spanish scholars and of R. Uceda's contemporaries. R. Samuel b. Isaac Uceda (1540–?), talmudist, preacher, and kabbalist. R. Uceda, who was born in Safed, studied Kabbalah under R. Isaac Luria. After the latter's death, he studied under R. Luria's disciple R. Hayyim Vital and R. Elisha Gallico. At the age of 40, he established a great yeshivah in Safed where Talmud and Kabbalah were taught. The yeshivah was supported by the Nasi family of Constantinople. Uceda also spent some time as a merchant in Aleppo. In 1597, when the financial resources of the yeshivah were depleted, he went to Constantinople in an attempt to raise funds. There he was helped by the philanthropist and scholar R. Abraham Algazi. R. Uceda was apparently the owner of a large library which contained many manuscripts.

In his Midrash Shemu'el (Venice, 1579), a commentary on the tractate Avot, he quotes some of the early Spanish scholars and his contemporaries from books which were in his possession. He also wrote a commentary on the Five Scrolls. His commentary on Lamentations was published as Lehem Dimah (Venice, 1606). His books had wide circulation and his commentary on Avot was printed three times during his life. His sermons are to be found in manuscript (Moscow, Guenzburg Ms. 1054).

          
Paragraph 2    חברו... כמה"רר שמואל אוזידה זל"הה והוא פירוש... על מגילת רות מימינו... רש"י... נדפס שנית...

עם הפנים. קולופון: נעשה על יד יעקב בן אברהם גר צדק. מעבר לשער הסכמת ר' שלמה אאיליון, אמשטרדם, כז ניסן תע"ב.

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0304611; Rosanes, Togarmah, 3 (1938), 282; EJ; JE; G. Scholem, in; Zion, 5 (1940), 134, 145; D. Tamar, in; Sefunot, 7 (1963), 173–4; M. Benayahu, Sefer Toledot ha-Ari (1967), index.
        
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Holland:    Checked
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica