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Lot #    7707
Auction End Date    8/17/2004 10:12:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Responsa
Title (Hebrew)    שאלות ותשובות
Author    [First Ed.] R. Jacob ben Israel ha-Levi
City    Venice
Publisher    Giovanni Vendramina
Publication Date    1632-34
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First complete edition. 194 ff., 290:195 mm., wide margins, stamps on several ff., light age and damp staining. A very good copy bound in modern cloth boards.
          
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Description		    R. Jacob ben Israel ha-Levi (second half of 16th century–1636), halakhist and scholar. A member of the famous Bet ha-Levi family, Jacob grew up in Salonika, where he studied in the local yeshivot. He studied halakhah with R. Aaron ibn Hasson and philosophy with R. David ibn Shushan (see his approbation (haskamah) to the Sefer Illem of 1629). He moved from Salonika to Xanthe, where he served as rabbi of the town and its environs, and then went to Venice. R. Jacob became famous for his responsa (1612; complete edition, Venice, 1632–34), and his sermons and translation of the Koran are extant in manuscript. He translated the Koran from Arabic "to a Christian language [Latin?] and from the latter into the holy tongue." In Italy he was apparently an affluent businessman who established close contact with the authorities, apparently as a result of his intellectual attainments. The great rabbis of Salonika, Greece, and Italy of the early 17th century gave their endorsements to his responsa, and answered the halakhic queries which he addressed to them. Some of his responsa appear in the works of these rabbis, and similarly, his approbations to several books printed in Italy and elsewhere have been published.
          
Paragraph 2    ממוהר"ר יעקב לבית הלוי נר"ו ... והוגה ... על יד ... אברהם בכ"ר שלמה חיים חבר טוב זצ"ל ...

בשער: שצ"ב. בקולופון: ותשלם כל המלאכה ... יום ג ו לחדש אדר שני שנת יאכלו ענוים ו'י'ש'ב'ע'ו' [שצ"ד] ... מהקדמת המחבר: "זה לי עשרים שנה בימי חרפי ... הפצירוני אוהבי ושכני להדפיס מעט התשובות אשר היו לפני ... ועתה חשבתי למשפט לחזור ולכלול אותם בספר הזה ... כי נתחדשו אח"כ בקצת התשו בות ההם חדושים אחרים לא היו אז לפני וראוי לחברן אליהם ... ".

          
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Description		    CD-EPI 0136160; EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
17th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Italy:    Checked
  
Subject
Responsa:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica