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Bidding Information
Lot #    25777
Auction End Date    1/12/2010 12:39:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Avkat Rokhel
Title (Hebrew)    אבקת רוכל
Author    [R. Machir ben Isaac Sar Hasid]
City    Jerusalem
Publisher    Judah ve-Jerusalem
Publication Date    1931
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [2], 54 pp. octavo 194:136 mm., wide margins, light age staining, stamps, minor worming. A very good copy bound in the original printed boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Popular eschatological work on the principles of faith attributed to Machir ben Isaac Sar Hasid, a student of R. Judah ben Asher, son of the Rosh. Avkat Rokhel is a book in three parts, each further subdivided into additional parts. The work was named Avkat Rokhel (the perfumer=s powders, Song of Songs (3:7) for as the perfumer=s powders strengthen the soul so too when one reads this book will he fear and cause his soul to be pure and free from all sin and transgression, thus meriting the good. The text of the book is in a single column set in small square letters. The first part addresses the struggle against one=s evil urge prior to redemption and the birth pangs and advent of the Messiah, and an explanation of the pertinent midrashim; the second part discusses the rewards and punishments of the soul after the resurrection, the nature of the world to come according to Judaism, in contrast to the views of non-Jews, and resurrection; and the third part the laws stated by the sages of the Talmud as halakhah Moshe me-Sinai, the formation of man and the number 248 limbs in a person, the statement of our sages concerning three partners in that process (God, man, and woman) and some gematriot.
          
Paragraph 2    ... נדפס בהוצאות מנחם מענדל עקערמאן...

הסכמות בתי הדין בירושלים: ר' יצחק במוהר"א [ר' אליהו] פרענקל, ר' פנחס בהגר"י [ר' ישעיה] עפשטיין ור' שמחה בונם ווערנער, כג אייר תרצ"א; ר' צבי פסח פראנק, ר' יוסף גרשון הורוויץ ור' אליהו בהר"ש [ר' שלמה] ראם, כה אייר תרצ"א.

          
Reference
Description		    BE alef 286; Heller 16th Cent.; CD-EPI 0148363
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Ethics
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica