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Only edition of the discourses on the weekly Torah portions by the Sephardic sage and ethicist R. Eliezer ben Isaac Papo. The discourses in Elef ha-Magen have mussar “more to be desired are they than gold” (Psalms 19:11). It is dated with the verse “[Your neck is like the tower of David built with turrets], on which hang one thousand bucklers, all of them shields [of mighty men]” (Song of Songs 4:4).
R. Papo was a Bulgarian rabbi and author; born in Sarajevo, Bosnia; died in 1824. He held the office of rabbi in Silistria, Bulgaria, till his death. He led a religious life, taking little food, and restraining himself from every kind of pleasure; hence he was surnamed "the Saint" ("ha-Ḳadosh"). Among R. Papo’s other titles are Pele Yo'ez, rules of morality, in alphabetical order, in two parts (Constantinople, 1824; Bucharest, 1860); "Ḥesed la-Alafim" (Salonika, 1836), treating of the precepts of the Shulḥan 'Aruk, Oraḥ Ḥayyim, and published by his son R. Judah Papo. Several of his other works remain in manuscript.
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