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Bidding Information
Lot #
9827
Auction End Date
3/22/2005 1:47:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Akedat Yizhok
Title (Hebrew)
עקידת יצחק
Author
[Ms. - Liturgy - Kabbalah] R. Benjamin b. Israel
City
[Persia]
Publication Date
1898
Collection Information
Independent Item
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Description Information
Physical
Description
[30] pp., 175:114 mm., wide margins on crisp sheets, beautiful Persian letters, 24 lines per page in 4 line stanzas, each page in penciled frame, signed and dated by Mattisyahu b. Juni, Scribe, bound in contemporary red morocco boards.
Detailed
Description
Poem in Hebrew with Judeo-Persan translation in verse, in the spirit of moralism. The Akedah to the moralists was a fertile text for the inculcation of religious and ethical values. Typical is the observation of R. Isaiah Horowitz (Shenei Luhot ha-Berit, Va-Yera, end) that the Akedah teaches that everything must be sacrificed to G-d, if needs be; how much more, then, must man be willing to give up his lusts for G-d. Moreover, whenever man has an opportunity of doing good, or refraining from evil, he should reflect that perhaps G-d is testing him at that moment as He tested Abraham. The poem is recited in the morning Rosh Ha'Shannah service by many North African communities.
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:
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Location
Other:
Persia
Subject
Liturgy:
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Characteristic
Language:
Hebrew, Judeo-Persian
Manuscript Type
Other:
Prayerbook
Kind of Judaica
