Includes Berakhot, Moʻed, and Nashim with indexes by Aviʻezri Zelig Oyerbakh; commentaries and notes by Avraham Oyerbakh. Includes sermons on the weekly Torah portions. Autograph. Original paginati... Show moreIncludes Berakhot, Moʻed, and Nashim with indexes by Aviʻezri Zelig Oyerbakh; commentaries and notes by Avraham Oyerbakh. Includes sermons on the weekly Torah portions. Autograph. Original pagination: 331 leaves. Author's name and date of birth appears in Yosef Avivi's book "Rabbinic manuscripts", item #61, page 25. Show less
Contents: כרך א. תעודות שהעתיק ר' יעקב ששפורטש ששימשו אח"כ אותו לכתיבת ספרו ציצת נובל צבי -- כרך ב. שו"ת אהל יעקב. Kerekh 1. Teʻudot she-heʻetiḳ R. Yaʻaḳov Śaśporṭas she-shimshu aḥ. k. oto le-k... Show moreContents: כרך א. תעודות שהעתיק ר' יעקב ששפורטש ששימשו אח"כ אותו לכתיבת ספרו ציצת נובל צבי -- כרך ב. שו"ת אהל יעקב. Kerekh 1. Teʻudot she-heʻetiḳ R. Yaʻaḳov Śaśporṭas she-shimshu aḥ. k. oto le-khetivat sifro Tsitsat novel Tsevi -- Kerekh 2. Shut Ohel Yaʻaḳov. Includes letters written to him from R. Raphael Suffino and R. Joshua de Silveyra. Written in author's own handwriting; 40-45 lines to a page; Maaravic script. Show less
Contents: כרך א. תעודות שהעתיק ר' יעקב ששפורטש ששימשו אח"כ אותו לכתיבת ספרו ציצת נובל צבי -- כרך ב. שו"ת אהל יעקב. Kerekh 1. Teʻudot she-heʻetiḳ R. Yaʻaḳov Śaśporṭas she-shimshu aḥ. k. oto le-k... Show moreContents: כרך א. תעודות שהעתיק ר' יעקב ששפורטש ששימשו אח"כ אותו לכתיבת ספרו ציצת נובל צבי -- כרך ב. שו"ת אהל יעקב. Kerekh 1. Teʻudot she-heʻetiḳ R. Yaʻaḳov Śaśporṭas she-shimshu aḥ. k. oto le-khetivat sifro Tsitsat novel Tsevi -- Kerekh 2. Shut Ohel Yaʻaḳov. Includes letters written to him from R. Raphael Suffino and R. Joshua de Silveyra. Written in author's own handwriting; 40-45 lines to a page; Maaravic script. Show less
Commentary on the Five Scrolls, in five parts: Divre Shelomoh, on Song of Songs; Bet David on Ruth; Sefer keritut, on Lamentations; Ruaḥ ḥokhmah, on Ecclesiastes; Gedulat Mordekhai on Esther. On ... Show moreCommentary on the Five Scrolls, in five parts: Divre Shelomoh, on Song of Songs; Bet David on Ruth; Sefer keritut, on Lamentations; Ruaḥ ḥokhmah, on Ecclesiastes; Gedulat Mordekhai on Esther. On leaf 38 there is a commentary on Abraham Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Five Scrolls. The author was a scholar and printer of Hebrew books in Vienna. On the colophon he writes that the work was completed in his birthplace, Rechnitz [Rohonc], Hungary in 1832 when he was twenty-five. Ruled in pencil, written in black ink in Ashkenazi cursive script; comments added on a separate sheet of paper; traces of foliation in ink; modern foliation in pencil both using Arabic numerals but not corresponding; lower corners soiled and worn; marbled paper wrappers. Montefiore no. 51. Previous owner: Solomon Halberstam (shelf no. 389). Show less
Commentary on Genesis, chapters 35-37, written in Judeo-Arabic. The author, the grandson of Maimonides, was a leader of Egyptian Jewry, and the author of homilies on the Haftarot. Ruled in hardpoin... Show moreCommentary on Genesis, chapters 35-37, written in Judeo-Arabic. The author, the grandson of Maimonides, was a leader of Egyptian Jewry, and the author of homilies on the Haftarot. Ruled in hardpoint; written in brown ink in Oriental Hebrew script; one leaf with watermark of balance in circle; modern foliation in pencil; catchwords; many folios tissued; bound in library buckram. Montefiore no. 31. Show less
Contains two works. First work, by Ḥayyim ben Joseph Vital: Incomplete text. Written with annotations by Jacob ben Ḥayyim Ẓemah. Oriental script; 30 lines to a page. Second work: Includes a cond... Show moreContains two works. First work, by Ḥayyim ben Joseph Vital: Incomplete text. Written with annotations by Jacob ben Ḥayyim Ẓemah. Oriental script; 30 lines to a page. Second work: Includes a condensed version of Derush ha-atsilut by Ḥayyim ben Joseph Vital copied by Samson Bak. Oriental script; 30 lines to a page. Original pagination: Leaves 162-167. Show less
Ms 9 contains two works. First work (leaves 1-65), dated Paris, 28 Siṿan 672 [1812], was written in author Joseph David Sinzheim's own handwriting, 35 lines to a page, Ashkenazic script; second wo... Show moreMs 9 contains two works. First work (leaves 1-65), dated Paris, 28 Siṿan 672 [1812], was written in author Joseph David Sinzheim's own handwriting, 35 lines to a page, Ashkenazic script; second work (leaves 67-97) by Tsevi Binyamin Oyerbakh added later; copyist unknown. Ms 9A consists of 16 various handwritten pages. Show less
Contents: Genesis 1:1 - Exodus 24:2; Aramaic Targum Onkelos and Saadia Gaon's Arabic translation follow each verse; first two and last three leaves lack the Arabic translation; marginal notes conta... Show moreContents: Genesis 1:1 - Exodus 24:2; Aramaic Targum Onkelos and Saadia Gaon's Arabic translation follow each verse; first two and last three leaves lack the Arabic translation; marginal notes contain scribal omissions, and comments based on Rashi and the Midrash; readings for the Holidays indicated. Written in black ink in large Yemenite square script, most with super-linear vocalization; in various hands on various papers; catchwords; modern foliation in pencil; moderate browning throughout; some early marginal repairs; black library buckram. Scribe unknown. Montefiore no. 3. Show less
Includes index. Written in the author's own handwriting. Thirty-five lines to a page; Ashkenazic script. Dated: Paris, 10 Adar 571 [1811] - 18 Ḥeshṿan 572 [1811].
Includes notes at end by the author's son-in-law Avraham ben Aviʻezri Zelig Oyerbakh. Includes index, completed in 1811. Dated: Paris, 25 Av 570 [1810]. Written in author's own handwriting. Forty-f... Show moreIncludes notes at end by the author's son-in-law Avraham ben Aviʻezri Zelig Oyerbakh. Includes index, completed in 1811. Dated: Paris, 25 Av 570 [1810]. Written in author's own handwriting. Forty-five lines to a page; Ashkenazic script. Show less
Unpublished commentary on the Book of Job. According to Yitsḥaḳ Yaʻbets the author of the commentary is Moses Kimḥi. A colophon gives the scribe as Yiśraʼel b.k. R. Avraham who titles his manusc... Show moreUnpublished commentary on the Book of Job. According to Yitsḥaḳ Yaʻbets the author of the commentary is Moses Kimḥi. A colophon gives the scribe as Yiśraʼel b.k. R. Avraham who titles his manuscript Ha-perush ṿeha-pasuḳ. On various other manuscripts he is known as Yiśraʼel ben Avraham Melamed Lago. On fol. 1r, in a different Ashkenazi script, there is a Seliḥot poem by Judah he-Ḥasid titled Elo-him be-Yiśraʼel. Includes marginal notes by Solomon Halberstam and Samuel David Luzzatto. French words in the commentary transcribed into Roman characters by Luzzatto in margins. Includes also excerpts from Yitsḥaḳ Yaʻbets' work Torat ḥesed. Title from Sotheby catalog "Important Hebrew manuscripts from the Montefiore endowment", New York, October 27 & 28, 2004, no. 5. Original manuscript on parchment and paper; 24 lines; written in brown ink in Byzantine script; text of Job vocalized and with cantillation notes; catchwords; quires numbered in Hebrew characters; modern foliation in pencil; fols. 96-97 torn and lacking upper left corner; fol. 98 torn without text loss; minor worming to final leaves; marbled paper over boards. Physical manuscript previously owned by Shelomoh Kohen (patron), Moses Montefiore (no. 6), Samuel David Luzzatto, and Solomon Halberstam (shelf no. 198). Show less
A response to Isaac Jacquelot (1647-1708), a Protestant theologian, whose Dissertation, published in 1699, aimed to prove to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah promised in the Old Testament. The p... Show moreA response to Isaac Jacquelot (1647-1708), a Protestant theologian, whose Dissertation, published in 1699, aimed to prove to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah promised in the Old Testament. The present work is divided into six parts. Vol. 1: general introduction; vols. 2-3: essays on the necessity of religion, the history of the Inquisition and the power of the Church, a refutation of Augustinian doctrines on the acceptable uses of terror and violence to advance Christianity; vol. 4: a letter to Jacquelot summarizing the argument; vol. 5: an appeal to God for judgment in the dispute; vol. 6: summary of the entire work and quotations from contemporary authors supporting the author's argument. Written in Spanish in a cursive hand, 42 lines, each title within architectural columns painted with floral borders; some marginal foxing and browning throughout; contemporary mottled calf, gold stamped with arabesque ornaments along borders and gold-stamped royal supralibros. Abraham Gómez Silveira (1656-1741), a Marrano, was one of the most prolific writers of the western Sephardic diaspora. Born in Avila, Spain, he moved to France and then to Amsterdam where he embraced Judaism and joined the local Sephardic community. He published seven sermons in Spanish, and was recognized as a gifted poet and an original thinker. His works are valuable for the intellectual history of the western Sephardim, the history of the Marranos and the Spanish Inquisition. This is the only known complete copy of this unpublished work. Original copy previously owned by Jews' College, London. Show less
Contains a commentary on Isaac Alfasi's Hilkhot Alfasi on Seder Nashim by Judah ben Eleazar ha-Kohen Al-Madari of Aleppo. The commentary covers tractates Yevamot, Ketubbot, Kiddushin, and Gittin. A... Show moreContains a commentary on Isaac Alfasi's Hilkhot Alfasi on Seder Nashim by Judah ben Eleazar ha-Kohen Al-Madari of Aleppo. The commentary covers tractates Yevamot, Ketubbot, Kiddushin, and Gittin. Al-Madari's commentary is heavily based upon Rashi's commentary and also cites Maimonides and other later scholars. Written in black ink in Oriental semi-cursive script on paper. Montefiore no. 75. Previously owned by: Azariah ha-Kohen of the Zadok family; Solomon Halberstam. Show less
Includes sermons for Sabbath, holidays, weddings, weekly Torah portions, and insights into the Talmud and Midrashim. Includes eulogies on Rabbi Jacob (Yaʻaḳov) Emden, Rabbi Abraham ben Saul Broda,... Show moreIncludes sermons for Sabbath, holidays, weddings, weekly Torah portions, and insights into the Talmud and Midrashim. Includes eulogies on Rabbi Jacob (Yaʻaḳov) Emden, Rabbi Abraham ben Saul Broda, and others. Autograph. Edited and with notes by Aviʻezri Zelig Oyerbakh; notes by Avraham Oyerbakh. Author's name and date of birth appears in Yosef Avivi's book "Rabbinic manuscripts", item #63, page 25. Show less
A response to Isaac Jacquelot (1647-1708), a Protestant theologian, whose Dissertation, published in 1699, aimed to prove to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah promised in the Old Testament. The p... Show moreA response to Isaac Jacquelot (1647-1708), a Protestant theologian, whose Dissertation, published in 1699, aimed to prove to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah promised in the Old Testament. The present work is divided into six parts. Vol. 1: general introduction; vols. 2-3: essays on the necessity of religion, the history of the Inquisition and the power of the Church, a refutation of Augustinian doctrines on the acceptable uses of terror and violence to advance Christianity; vol. 4: a letter to Jacquelot summarizing the argument; vol. 5: an appeal to God for judgment in the dispute; vol. 6: summary of the entire work and quotations from contemporary authors supporting the author's argument. Written in Spanish in a cursive hand, 42 lines, each title within architectural columns painted with floral borders; some marginal foxing and browning throughout; contemporary mottled calf, gold stamped with arabesque ornaments along borders and gold-stamped royal supralibros. Abraham Gómez Silveira (1656-1741), a Marrano, was one of the most prolific writers of the western Sephardic diaspora. Born in Avila, Spain, he moved to France and then to Amsterdam where he embraced Judaism and joined the local Sephardic community. He published seven sermons in Spanish, and was recognized as a gifted poet and an original thinker. His works are valuable for the intellectual history of the western Sephardim, the history of the Marranos and the Spanish Inquisition. This is the only known complete copy of this unpublished work. Original copy previously owned by Jews' College, London. Show less
Yizkor and prayer book. Contains lists of deceased, synagogue prayer services, and memorial prayers. The scribe, Binyamin Zeʼev ben Elyaḳim Getsel Kats of Kempen, recorded the book's completion in ... Show moreYizkor and prayer book. Contains lists of deceased, synagogue prayer services, and memorial prayers. The scribe, Binyamin Zeʼev ben Elyaḳim Getsel Kats of Kempen, recorded the book's completion in 1765 in Breslau. The German colophon gives his name as Wolf Jacob von Kempen. There is a dedication in Hebrew on the t.p. by Moshe Segal as a memorial to his parents, Shelomoh and Esther Segal, dated 1802 or 1803. There the location is given as Auras (nowadays Uraz, a suburb of Wrocław). There are four unbound pages at the end of the book, two of which record the dates of the death of members of the scribe's family. The other two pages record names of deceased. The book is beautifully illustrated in black and white by the scribe. Of note: on p. 9a, in the service for berit milah, there are instructions for the contingency of the infant's being orphaned of one or both of his parents, indicating that it was a common phenomenon of the time. Lewin no. 235. For more information, see digital exhibit "Echoes of Auras: Memorbuch of a Jewish Community" at https://www.yu.edu/Libraries/Memorbuch Show less
