Sefer Zechut Moshe, By Rabbi Moshe Bula.
Only Edition, Thessaloniki, 1818.
Very Rare, apparently has never appeared at public auction!
[2] 1-140, leaves. 28 Cm.
Overall Good condition, stains, title page has marginal repairs, first few and last few page corners frayed, last page has marginal page repairs and is detached from text block, original binding damaged, front and back cover partially detached.
The author Rabbi Raphael Moses Bula (d. 1773), scholar and emissary of the Jerusalem community. During his stay in Constantinople (1752) while on a mission to Turkey, Bula published his homiletical collection, Ḥayyei Olam. In 1758 he was one of the scholars at the Neveh Shalom yeshivah in Jerusalem. He also authored Get Mekushar (Constantinople, 1767) on divorce, . Bula is one of the signatories of the letter (1770) authorizing Rabbi Yom Tov *Algazi and Rabbi Jacob Ḥazzan to collect funds on behalf of the Jerusalem community. Bula\'s son solomon (1734–86), a Jerusalem-born rabbi and halakhic authority, left Jerusalem after his father\'s death and went to Salonika, where he became one of the most renowned scholars. Solomon\'s work Leḥem Shelomo (Salonika, 1795) deals with possession, property rights, and divorce law. His responsa were never published.
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