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Lot #    24526
Auction End Date    8/11/2009 12:12:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Midrash Shemu'el
Title (Hebrew)    מדרש שמואל
Author    [Avot] R. Samuel Uceda
City    Zholkva
Publication Date    1783
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [108] ff., 224:185 mm., wide margins, light age and damp staining, usual fraying. A good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Samuel ben Isaac Uzedah (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. R. 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 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. The commentary on Ruth was published as Iggeret Shemu'el (Kuru-Chesme, near Constantinople, 1597). It includes sayings of early Spanish scholars and of R. Uceda's contemporaries. 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    והוא באור על פרקי אבות מהחכם...שמואל די אוזידה...רש"י נצב על יד ימינו... בשנת והשיב ל'ב' ב'נ'י'ם' על א'ב'ו'ת'

פאגינאציה משובשת. על השער השיר בשבח הספר ("זמורות זמירות ערוכות שמורות"), מאת ר' שמואל ארקיוולטי. עם הפנים.

          
Reference
Description		    Vinograd 428; CD-EPI 0151188; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Avot
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica