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Lot #    25288
Auction End Date    12/8/2009 11:25:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Lehem min ha-Shamayim, Part II
Title (Hebrew)    לחם מן השמים חלק ב
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Moses ben Raphael Isaiah Azulai
City    Livorno (Leghorn)
Publisher    Eliezer Menahem Ottelenghi
Publication Date    1848
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 100 ff. quarto 187:136 mm., nice margins, light age and damp staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed and split.
          
Detailed
Description		    Only edition of these discourses on Exodus through Leviticus and special Shabbasim by R. Azulai, a grandson of R. Hayyim Joseph David Azulai (Hida). The title page begins that the title Lehem min ha-Shamayim is a notarikon (system of abbreviations by either shortening the words or by writing only one letter of each word. This method is used in interpreting the Pentateuch and is the 30th of the 32 hermeneutical rules of the Baraita of 32 Rules) for Likkutei Hiddushei Mi-ziknei Me-cal Nimukei Ha-rav She-nidpas Maz Yikurim Mepininim, that is, they are the collected novellae of his grandfather, more precious than rubies. He continues that it is gematriot in the possession of Moses Azuali, the collected discourses and allusions on the Torah scattered here and there in the works of the gaon, the Hida. At the end he has added discourses entitled Ruah Hen. It is dated with the verse “Who gives bread to all flesh; for his loving kindness endures for ever” (Psalms 136:125). There are eight pages of approbations, followed by the text, set in a single column in rabbinic type. The discourses after the Torah portion are on Shabbat ha-Gadol, Shabbat ha-Kallah, Shabbat Teshuvah, and Sahbbat Zekhor. Lehem min ha-Shamayim concludes with Pas Lehem, tikkunim and omissions to Lehem min ha-Shamayim part two. This volume is part two, part one having been printed in 1845. At the end this part the hope is expressed that part three may also be published, but that part was never printed.
          
Paragraph 2    ... מאסף קצת חידושים ורמזים על התורה המפוזרים ... בתוך ספרי ... הגאון מז"ה חיד"א [מורי זקני הרב חיים יוסף דוד אזולאי] ... ועוד כתבתי איזה דבר אשר נלע"ד באיזה מקומות אני הצעיר מאי"ן >ר"ת נאם משה אזולאי יצ"ו< ומה שמצאתי בליקוטי מז"ה מכ"י ... וחידושים ורמזים מרבינו אפרים מכ"י ופירושים מליקוטי גאוני קמאי כ"י ... ונוסף על זה בסוף הספר קצת דרושים מספר רוח חיים כ"י שחיבר מז"ה חיד"א ... [מאת] משה בלא"א ... ר' רפאל ישעיה אזולאי זצ"ל ... חלק א-ב.
          
Reference
Description		    BE lamed 322; CD-EPI 0120363
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Italy:    Checked
Other:    Morocco
  
Subject
Bible:    Checked
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Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica