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Bidding Information
Lot #    6667
Auction End Date    2/10/2004 3:04:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Chaya Avraham
Title (Hebrew)    חיי אברהם
Author    [Tripoli - Kabbalah] R. Abraham Khalfon
City    Leghorn
Publisher    Moses I. Tobianno
Publication Date    1857
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [4], 72, [2] ff., 213:138 mm., usual light age staining, old hand on title and in margin of many ff. A very good copy bound in modern boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    R. Abraham b. Raphael Khalfon (late 18th century), rabbi in Tripoli. Information about R. Halfon is limited to the fact that his book, Hayyei Avraham (Leghorn, 1826), was published posthumously by his son Rahamim. The haskamot (recommendations) for the book were written by two emissaries from Tiberias, R. Joseph ibn Samon and R. Samuel Shoshanah, indicating Halfon's ties to that town. The book contains traditional explanations of the commandments in the Shulhan Arukh (Orah Hayyim and Yoreh De'ah). The explanations, based on the Talmud, the Zohar, Ketem Paz (a commentary on the Zohar), Sefer Hasidim, and Penei David by R. Hayyim Joseph David Azulai, are lucidly and attractively presented and avoid wearying casuistry. The book was published in several succeeding editions: 1844, 1857, 1861. Several other works by him, halakhic and homiletical, are still in manuscript.
          
Paragraph 2    ... האידנא איקלע לאתרין... ר' משה חנוך הלוי... לעשות רצון... אנשי תימן מקום מושבו... בעו חיי... דאברהם... ועוד הוסיף... נבואת הילד... כ"ד... אברהם ברוך פיפרנו...
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0140172; Vinograd, Leghorn 1148, 1154; EJ
        
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
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Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica