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Ethical work of mussar and aggadah by R. Isaac ben Solomon Farhi. There is a brief introduction from R. Farhi followed by an approbation from R. Abraham Shalom Halberstam. The text, in a single paragraph in rabbinic letters, is comprised of eleven chapters. The subject mater includes fear of the Lord and the shame of haughtiness, the shame of anger, the shame of miserliness and stinginess, the shame of mentioning the name of the Lord in vain and swearing false oaths, keeping Shabbat, humility, ten things considered in place of a korban, and concluding with praise for synagogues and batei midrashim.
R. Isaac ben Solomon Farhi (1778-1853) was from a well-known family of financiers in Damascus during the 18th and 19th centuries. In addition to this work he was also the author of Tuv Yerushalayim (Jerusalem, 1842), Zekhut ha-Rabbim (Constantinople, 1829), Imrei Binah (Bilagrado, 1837), Zekhut u-Mishor (Smyrna, 1850), Shevet Mishor (Belgrade, 1837), Matok la-Nefesh (Constantinople, 1828), Marpe la-Ezem (Constantinople, 1830), Musar Haskel (Constantinople, 1830), and Minei Metikah (Leghorn, 1848); and Zuf Devash and Imrei No’am (Livorno, 1849), both ethical works.
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