By Rabbi Chaim ben Betzalel.
Aleppo (Aram Tzovah) Eliahu Hai Sasson, 1872. One of the first Seforim printed there.
Ya’ari, Aleppo 7; and see D. Sutton, Aleppo: City of Scholars no. 191.
Nice handstamp of R. Shmuel Eliezer Wartman (Wortman) of Warsaw-Jerusalem (died in 1909).
32 Leaves. 13.8 Cm.
Overall Good condition, few stains, page 3 has a marginal repair, later brown leather binding.
A fascinating conflation of Jewish cultural backgrounds: A work composed first in Prague in 1605 by the brother of the Maharal, here reprinted more than two centuries later in the ancient city of Aleppo, Syria, in which the editor, Moshe Mordehai Dayan, includes an endorsement for the work penned by the Chassidic Rebbe Abraham Joshua Heschel of Apt, noting that all the author’s words “are pearls… imbued with a holy spirit”.
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