Avodat ha-Kodesh, R. Hayyim Joseph David Azulai (Hida), Jerusalem 1847
עבודת הקדש; לדוד אמת - Kabbalah
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- Lot Number 50487
- Title (English) Avodat ha-Kodesh
- Title (Hebrew) עבודת הקדש; לדוד אמת
- Note Kabbalah
- Author R. Hayyim Joseph David Azulai (Hida)
- City Jerusalem
- Publisher Israel b. Abraham Bak
- Publication Date 1847
- Estimated Price - Low 300
- Estimated Price - High 600
- Item # 1633426
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Physical Description
[4], 168; [1], 114-120, 165-168, 125-128, 173-176, 133-156 ff., 8 vo., 145:94 mm., nice margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary half leather over boards, rubbed.
Detail Description
Israel b. Abraham Bak (1797–1874) was born in Berdichev, Ukraine, into a family of printers. Later he owned a Jewish press in Berdichev, printing about 30 books between 1815 and 1821 when the press closed down. In 1831, after various unsuccessful efforts to reopen the works, he emigrated to Palestine and settled in Safed. There he renewed the tradition of printing Hebrew works, which had come to an end in the last third of the 17th century. During the peasant revolt against Muhammad Ali in 1834 his printing press was destroyed and he was wounded. Later he reopened his press, and also began to work the land on Mount Yarmak (Meron), overlooking Safed. His was the first Jewish farm in Erez Israel in modern times. After the Safed earthquake in 1837 and the Druze revolt in 1838, during which his farm and printing press were destroyed, he moved to Jerusalem. In 1841 he established the first, and for 22 years, the only, Jewish printing press in Jerusalem. One hundred and thirty books were printed on it, making it an important cultural factor in Jerusalem. Bak also published and edited the second Hebrew newspaper in Erez Israel, Havazzelet (1863).
Hebrew Description:
כולל: מורה באצבע, צפורן שמיר, קשר גודל, כף אחת, יוסף בסדר, סנסן ליאיר, שומר ישראל ו"הוספנו גם את השמיני ... לדוד אמת ... ועוד נתוסף פה דברי מוסר הנוהגי' לאמר בק"ק בית אל יב"ץ קודם תקיעת שופר ביום א' וב'". "הקדמת המדפיס", ר' ישראל ב"ק, שבאה בדפוס הראשון, ירושלים תר"א, נשמטה. ל"דוד אמת" שער מיוחד. דף [קיג, א]: ספר לדוד אמת ... דיני ס"ת ... בסוף ... קונט' אחרון כל מידי דשיי"ר המובא בספר שם הגדולים ח"ב ... ירושלים בשנת אוהב יהוה שערי ציון לפ"ק [כט] [תר"ו, 1846].
>"[כט]"< הוא כנראה מספר הספרים שנדפסו על-ידי ר' ישראל ב"ק. עיין: שושנה הלוי, הדפוס הראשון בירושלים, ירושלים תש"א, עמ' 45. דף קנז-קסח: תורת השלמים. לדוד אמת יצא גם לחוד.
References:
Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000108637; EJ