Manuscript. Anthology of Halachic Rulings. With Handwriting and Signature of...

Manuscript. Anthology of Halachic Rulings. With Handwriting and Signature of the Saintly Kabbalist ‘Ner HaMa’aravi’, Rabbi Yitzchak ben Walid; Teacher of Rabbi Yisrael Vidal, Kabbalist Rabbi David Tzabach, Av Beit Din Marrakesh and others.

The manuscript comprises 50 pages bound together as a booklet of Piskei Din, Endorsements of the Piskei Din and Contracts. These have been penned and signed by eminent Moroccan Rabbis, including:
Rabbi Yitzchak ben Walid.
Rabbi David Tzabach, Rabbi Yisrael Vidal, Rabbi Yosef Abitbol, Rabbi Moshe HaLevi and Rabbi Yitzchak ben Walid are among those whose writings appear in this manuscript.

Rabbi Yitzchak ben Walid (1770-1870) served as Chief Rabbi of Tétouan, and was a leading Moroccan Kabbalist. He was renowned from a young age for his piety, holiness and bringing about salvations. Rabbi Menachem Nahon and Rabbi Moshe HaLevi, two Moroccon Torah luminaries were his teachers.
With the passing of Rabbi Moshe HaLevi, the Tétouan community appointed him to assume the town’s leadership. At first Rabbi Yitzchak attempted to avoid accepting this honored position. He went as far as to relocate to Gibraltar to do so. The community, however, succeeded in tracking him down. Rabbi Yitzchak ultimately caved in to the pressure of the town’s Rabbis and accepted the position.
Rabbi Yitzchak was famed as one of the greatest Halachic authorities. He was inundated with Halachic queries from throughout Morocco as well as from other countries. Rabbi Yitzchak’s responsa were printed as a two-volume book, Shu”t VaYomer Yitzchak, Livorno, 1876.

Rabbi Yitzchak made a livelihood from drawing up contracts, but lived a life of poverty. He passed away at age 93, as Shabbat commenced, with the words ‘Mizmor Shir Leyom HaShabbat’ on his lips.

Rabbi Yitzchak’s burial place became a magnet for both Jews and non-Jews.
Numerous miraculous stories of salvation connected to this place abound. Similarly, there are a plethora of miraculous tales about otherworldly powers connected to Rabbi Yitzchak’s staff. Many homes boast of picture depicting this most saintly leader.

Rabbi Vidal Yisrael (1779-1860) was a great scholar of Tétouan. He served as a Dayan alongside Rabbi Yitzchak ben Walid. Rabbi Vidal’s name appears on the top of Rabbi Yitzchak’s Rabbinical Ordination letter.
He is listed here as one of the great Rabbis who appointed Rabbi Yitchak for his leadership position: “We, the undersigned K”K Tétouan yi”a and at its head, the Chacham vch’ KMIHRVY”S [Rabbi Vidal Yisrael] who consented with us for the purpose of a Mitzvah, and we wholeheartedly consented and we appointed him as Rabbi and Moreh Tzedek over us…”
Rabbi Vidal served on the Beit Din along with Rabbi Moshe HaLevi, Rabbi Menachem Nahon and Rabbi Moshe Ibn Tzur (teachers of Rabbi Yitzchak Walid).

Rabbi David Tzabach (1779-1859) was a leading Kabbalist. Following Chacham Avraham Pinto’s passing, he was appointed Chief Rabbi of Marrakesh and its environs.
From a young age, Rabbi David immersed himself in studying both the hidden and revealed areas of the Torah, authoring his novellae that reflected his great wisdom. Rabbi David’s mother passed away on 12 Tamuz, 5568 -1808.

Rabbi David was appointed to serve as a Dayan in 1817. In that same year his father, who worked as the King of Morocco’s tailor passed away from a plague that ravaged the city. In 1828, he was appointed as Av Beit Din Marrakesh. Rabbi David’s erudition in Hilchot Issur V’Heter of Yoreh De’ah earned him great fame. He was similarly erudite in Dinei Mamonot of Choshen Mishpat. Rabbi David’s mastery of Even HaEzer enabled him to release many agunot – ‘chained women’. In his great humility, Rabbi David rarely signed Halachic rulings himself. Rather, he consulted with the other Beit Din Rabbis.

The townspeople of Marrakesh often referred to him as King David Tzabach. Rabbi David lived an ascetic life and merited uncovering many hidden secrets of the Torah. He authored numerous compositions on the Arba’ah Turim, Talmud, Tanach and more. Many of Rabbi David’s writings on Torat HaNistar were sadly lost.

Rabbi Yosef Abitbol was a Dayan and Moreh Tzedek in Marrakesh around the 1840’s. He served on Rabbi David Tzabat’s Beit Din along with Rabbi Elazar Chazan, Rabbi Shalom Cohen and Rabbi Massoud Mocha.

50 full pages. Very good condition. Half-leather binding.

A real treasure!