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Bidding Information
Lot #
25955
Auction End Date
2/16/2010 11:15:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Tafsir Hilkhot Shehitah
Title (Hebrew)
תפסיר הלכות שחיטה
Author
[Ms. - Judeo Persian]
City
Persia
Publication Date
19th cent.
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
43, [30+blanks], 35 ff., 178:110 mm., nice margins, usual age and use staining, ink on (some blue) paper, approximately 20 lines per ruled page, beautiful Persian rabbinic script, tafsir with points, bound in contemporary leather boards, rubbed. Complete and bound as issued.
Detailed
Description
Collection of hilkhot shehitah (laws of kosher slaughter) in Hebrew and Judeo-Persian tafsir prose with points. The work gives extensive coverage to the animal parts (diagram of hind leg!) and their required appearance to be certified kosher. A sample certificate for rabbis who have merited semiha (anointment i.e. graduation) is likewise included. The Persian community dates back to Biblical times and has for centuries followed their traditional ways of religious life, not being influenced by external trends and currents. Lacking the printing press these sheltered communities employed scribes to write their religious prayer and study books. Some customs in the prayer rites go back to the prayer book of R. Saadiah Ga'on. From the 16th century on the Kabbalah and especially later its Lurianic school and system found its way to Persia and influenced Jewish literary production in the areas of commentaries to the Bible, prayers, and liturgic poetry. All of this rich history is reflected in this work.
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:
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Location
Other:
Persia
Subject
Halacha:
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Characteristic
Language:
Hebrew, Judeo-Persian
Manuscript Type
Other:
Book
Kind of Judaica
