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Lot #    4492
Auction End Date    4/29/2003 3:50:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ohr Torah
Title (Hebrew)    אור תורה
Author    [Egypt] R. Natan b. Chaim Amram
City    [Salonica]
Publication Date    1850
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    5 f., 12 mo., 146:102 mm., light browning, few small pin holes, bound in the original paper wrappers.
          
Paragraph 1    Only edition on tinted blue paper.
          
Detailed
Description		    Poetry and hymns on the occasion of a new sefer Torah donated to the synagouge of the Italian community in Alexandria, Egypt.
          
Paragraph 2    R. Natan b. Chaim Amram (1805–1870), rabbi and emissary of Erez Israel. Born in Safed, Amram was sent to Egypt in 1825 on behalf of the community of Tiberias. He remained in Alexandria until 1835, when he left for Europe as an emissary of Hebron. Accused of misappropriating funds from a mission, he wrote a pamphlet called Iggeret ha-Emunah ve-ha-Tiferet (1843) to justify his accounts. He returned to Alexandria by 1851 and was appointed rabbi there in 1863, serving until his death. Amram was interested in the sciences, medicine, economics, and mysticism, and wrote scores of small books on halakhah, philosophy, and Kabbalah, some of which were published. In 1853 he began the publication of his major work, No'am ha-Middot, concerning philosophical and moral topics, arranged alphabetically (pt. 1, 1855; pt. 2, 1865; pt. 3, 1869). He appended to it Hitnasse'ut ha-Mishar, a discussion of the development of the economy of Europe and its ethical and social significance. His novellae on the Scriptures and Talmud, sermons, and letters remain in manuscript.
          
Reference
Description		    Enc. Jud.; Yaari Sedar p. 690
        
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Greece-Turkey:    Checked
Other:    North Africa
  
Subject
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Characteristic
Blue Paper:    Checked
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Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica