Auction 52 Tiferet 52 - winter 2024 Auction
By Tiferet Auctions
Jan 14, 2024
Beit HaDfus 12, B, 4th floor, Jerusalem, Israel

A special auction of rare items:

First editions of Hassidic Sefarim, Slavita-Zhitomir, letters by Tzaddikim and the greatest Hassidic Rabbis, the Geonim of Ashkenaz and Hungary, the greatest Rabbis of Lithuania, the greatest Poskim of previous generations, pedigreed copies, artifacts of renowned Tzaddikim, Satmar, Chabad and more. 

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Commentary on the Rambam by Rabbi David Arama. Printed in Amsterdam, 1706. Rare. Copy of the Sages of Izmir

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Auction took place on Jan 14, 2024 at Tiferet Auctions
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Commentary on the Rambam by Rabbi David Arama. Printed in Amsterdam, 1706. Rare. Copy of the Sages of Izmir

Commentary on the Rambam by Rabbi David Arama. Moshe Dias Press, Amsterdam, [1706]. Second edition. Rare. Pedigreed copy. 


[2], 85 leaves. 20 cm. With approbations by the rabbis of Amsterdam. With signatures of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Papa, Rabbi Chaim Damth Bechor ben Chaviv and Rabbi Aharon Krispin. 

Rabbi David ben Rabbi Avraham Arama - one of the sages of Salonika and Turkey, a descendant of a family that was exiled from Spain. Author of a commentary on the Rambam's Mishneh Torah (Salonika, ca. 1570) and Shut on difficult Sugyot (Kushta, 1580). In his introduction to the commentary on the Rambam, the author writes that he wrote his innovations in 1545, when he was twenty. 

Rabbi Aharon Krispin - one of the sages and rabbis of Izmir. Rabbi Aharon helped his father, the Gaon Rabbi Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, author of Sefer Avraham Bamachazeh, to take care of the needs of the Jewish community of the town. His book, Beit Aharon (Izmir, 1863), was published with the approbation of Rabbi Chaim Palachi. He passed away young in 1854.

Renewed semi-leather binding. Moth holes. Stains. Fair condition. 


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