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Bidding Information
Lot #    7148
Auction End Date    4/27/2004 11:00:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Menorat ha-Ma'ohr
Title (Hebrew)    îðåøú äîàåø
Author    [Ms.] R. Isaac Aboab
City    Yemen
Publication Date    19th cent.
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [223] ff., 218:160 mm., ink on heavy stock, neat Yeminite script in bouble columns, lacks initial few ff., bound in modern half cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    The classic work on ethics and morals with the Nefesh Judah commentary. Menorat Ha'Maor,(“Candlestick of Light”), one of the most popular works of religious edification among the Jews in the Middle Ages. Written “for the ignorant and the learned, the foolish and the wise, the young and the old, for men and for women,” the work has enjoyed over 70 editions and printings (1st ed. Constantinople, 1514) and has been translated into Spanish, Ladino, Yiddish, and German. The book became a handbook for preachers and served for public reading in synagogues when no preacher was available.

Yemenite Jews recite a chapter after the prayer of Pitum ha-Ketoret.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Yemen
  
Subject
Other:    Ethics
  
Characteristic
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica