Phenomenal elucidation on Masechet Pirkei Avot, authored by Rabbi Moshe Almosnino. With the text of Tractate Avot.
Salonika, 1563. A the press of Joseph Ya’avetz.
This is the first sefer he authored, and is the one and only edition of it.
Inscription & signature of Anshel Hertz who bought the sefer in Berlin 1789. Many other antique signatures & some marginalia.
Ginzei Yisrael – Mehlman Collection 128.
111 Leaves. 19.2 cm.
Overall Good condition, thick quality pages, marginal water stains, first few pages have minor marginal worming, repair to last page, later red binding.
The author, Rabbi Moshe Almosnino was a prominent 16th Century, Salonika scholar. A scion of distinguished Aragon family, Rabbi Moshe was born in Salonika. He studied Torah in Rabbi Yosef Taitachek’s Yeshiva. An accomplished scholar, Rabbi Moshe was also well versed in Science, Philosophy, Medicine, Spanish Literature and a number of languages.
Politically astute, Rabbi Moshe led a delegation on behalf of Salonika Jewry to Constantinople to champion the rights of Jews. Rabbi Moshe authored many works, much of which he wrote in Ladino. Rabbi Moshe stood at the helm of two Salonika communities.
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