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Sha’ar Kebod HaShem, R. Ephraim ben Israel Alnaqua, Tunis 1902

שער כבוד ה - Only Edition

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  • Lot Number 49156
  • Title (English) Sha’ar Kebod HaShem
  • Title (Hebrew) שער כבוד ה
  • Note Only Edition
  • Author R. Ephraim ben Israel Alnaqua
  • City Tunis
  • Publisher Castro
  • Publication Date 1902
  • Estimated Price - Low 200
  • Estimated Price - High 500

  • Item # 1518145
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Physical Description

Only edition. 34, 97, [1] ff. octavo 228:150 mm., light age staining, wide margins. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.

 

Detail Description

Only edition of this defense of the Rambam from the criticism of the Ramban by R. Ephraim ben Israel Alnaqua, one of the sages of the Spanish exile. R. Alnaqua wrote this work for his elder son Israel, providing responses to Maimonides’ critique of the Morah Nevukhim. It remained in manuscript in the Bodleian Library, Oxford until publication of this edition.

R. Ephraim ben Israel Alnaqua (Alnucawi, Ankava, Ankoa; called Rab in Africa) was a physician, rabbi, and theological writer; founder of the Jewish community at Tlemçen, North Africa, in which place he died in 1442. According to a legend, Alnaqua escaped from the Spanish Inquisition, which had martyred his father and mother at the stake, and came to Africa mounted on a lion, using a serpent as a halter. Azulai refers to him as a miracle-worker. Alnaqua succeeded, after all other physicians had failed, in curing the only daughter of a king of the family Beni Zion. Refusing the reward of gold and silver offered him by the king, he begged only that the Jews living near Tlemçen might be united in it. In this way the community was formed. Alnaqua's first care was to establish a large synagogue: this is still in existence, and bears his name. Above the rabbi's chair, on which the verse Jer. xvii. 12 is engraved, a lamp burns perpetually. Alnaqua's grave, surrounded by those of his family, is in the old cemetery: it is sacred to North African Jews, and is frequently visited by pilgrims from all Algeria. R. Alnaqua had two sons, Israel and Judah. The latter lived at Oran, Mostaganem, and, later, at Tlemçen, and became the father-in-law of Ẓemah Duran. He also wrote religious hymns.

 

Hebrew Description:    

למור הה"ג ... אפרים אלנקאוא זצוק"ל ... עם פתח השער מאתי ... חיים בר ... כמוה"רר אברהם בלייח זצוק"ל מורה צדק בק"ק תלמסאן ...

על השגות הרמב"ן בפירושו לתורה על ספר "מורה נבוכים" לרמב"ם. עמ' 24-32: שני מכתבים, "הגהות והשגות" על "פתח השער" ושיר בשבח הספר, מאת ר' יצחק מרעלי, ותשובת המחבר עליהם.

 

References

BE shin 2002; JE; Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000110709