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Lot #    6610
Auction End Date    2/10/2004 1:10:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Elijah Mizrahi
Title (Hebrew)    אלי' מזרחי
Author    R. Elijah Mizrahi
City    Furth
Publisher    Itzik b. Loeb Bookbinder
Publication Date    1763
          
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Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
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Physical
Description		    [2], 241 ff., 324:200 mm., light age staining, wide margins, old hands and stamps on title and in several margins with longer notes. A very good copy bound in contemporary half calf boards, rubbed.
          
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Description		    Commentery on the commentary of Rashi on Torah by the rabbinical authority and perhaps greatest of the rabbis of the Ottoman Empire of his time. R. Mizrahi was of Romaniot origin (the original Turkish Jews as distinct from the Spanish exiles) and was born and educated in Constantinople. Among his teachers he mentions R. Elijah ha-Levi in rabbinic studies and Mordecai Comitiano in general studies. Until the death of R. Moses Capsali, R. Mizrahi devoted himself to study and public instruction. As early as 1475 he is mentioned as heading a keneset (probably a school in addition to a synagogue) and as having students. After the death of R. Capsali in 1498 R. Mizrahi became the foremost rabbinical authority in Constantinople and in fact throughout the whole Ottoman Empire. From far and near, problems of halakhah and procedure were addressed to him. There is reason to believe that he filled the position of head of the rabbis of Constantinople (though he did not have the title of hakham bashi, appointed by the sultan, since that office did not exist at that period). Nevertheless, it would seem that his authority derived not from any official position, but from the recognition of his personality and strength. He was considered both by his contemporaries and later generations as the greatest posek of his time in Turkey. He was firm and unbending in his decisions, and even the great rabbis among the Spanish exiles accepted his authority.
          
Paragraph 2    הסכמות: ר' אברהם [אבוש] ב"ר צ[בי] הירש, פרנקפורט דמיין, כג טבת תקכ"ב; ר' שמואל הילמן, מיץ, ו כסליו תקכ"ב; ר' אליעזר ב"ר משה לבית קצנאילנבוגן, האגינויא, ו מרחשון תקכ"ב; ר' נפתלי הירש ב"ר משה לבית קצנאילנבוגן, מערגיטום, ג לך לך תקכ"ב; ר' צבי הירש כהנא רפאפורט, וואלירשטיין והארבורג, כג טבת תקכ"ב; ר' נתנאל אשכנזי ווייל, קארלסרוא, ראש-חודש אלול תקכ"א.
          
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Description		    CD-EPI 0147449
        
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