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Bidding Information
Lot #    25269
Auction End Date    12/8/2009 11:16:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Tefillah le-Moshe
Title (Hebrew)    תפלה למשה
Author    R. Moses Almosnino
City    Cracow
Publisher    Raphael Naftali Hertz & son
Publication Date    1820
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    84 ff., 190:154 mm., wide margins, light age and damp staining, stamps. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed with tear.
          
Detailed
Description		    Comments to the Pentateuch and prayer book by R. Moses b. Baruch Almosnino (c. 1515–c. 1580), Salonika rabbi, scholar, and preacher. His numerous publications show his extensive knowledge of science, philosophy, history, and rhetoric. His rabbinic scholarship was widely respected. Although his responsa were never published in collected form, authorities such as R. Samuel de Medina, R. Hayyim Benveniste, R. Isaac Adarbi, and R. Jacob di Boton, included some of them in their works. A gifted orator, he served in succession as preacher to the Salonika congregations Neveh Shalom and later the Livyat Hen, founded by Gracia Nasi. A selection of his sermons, in Hebrew is printed in his Me'ammez Ko'ah (1582). In 1565 R. Almosnino was chosen as member of a delegation to Sultan Selim II to procure the confirmation of the privileges and exemptions granted by Suleiman the Magnificent to the Salonika community in 1537. The document had been destroyed in the great fire of 1545 and the local authorities again began to place crushing burdens on the community. The two other members of the delegation died en route. R. Almosnino, with the help of Joseph Nasi, succeeded, after much heartbreaking effort, in obtaining a favorable decision (1568), and the Salonika community was given the status of a self-governing entity, which it enjoyed for many centuries. R. Almosnino's works in Hebrew include commentaries on the Five Scrolls (Yedei Moshe, 1582), a supercommentary on Abraham ibn Ezra; and a commentary on Avot (Pirkei Moshe 1562). While in Constantinople, Almosnino compiled in Ladino a description of Constantinople, published, with some rearrangement and omissions, in Spanish by Jacob Cansino of Oran under the title Extremos y Grandezas de Constantinopla. It is one of the rarest works of Spanish Jewish literature and an important historical source. He published, also in Ladino, an ethical work, Il Regimiento dela Vida (Salonika 1564), which enjoyed considerable popularity in its time. Appended to it is a lengthy treatise on dreams, "composed at the request of the most illustrious senor, Don Joseph Nasi" and giving a graphic description of the latter's luxurious way of life.
          
Paragraph 2    ...התעודדנו להדפיסו שלישית ...

יש טפסים שהדף הראשון שונה: בשער נוסף המשפט: "והחכמה מר צורחת כי מיום אבדו הנה היא בגדי אלמנות לבשה ובמסתרים תאנח על אשר אין דורש לה" והתאריך הלועזי נשמט ממנו; הסכמת ר' צבי הירש דוד סג"ל, שמעבר לשער, נשמטה. עם ההסכמות שבאו בהוצאה הראשונה בתוספת הסכמת ר' צבי הירש דוד סג"ל , קראקא, כו תשרי תקפ"א.

          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0110686; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Novellae:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica