RABBI CHAIM YOSEF DAVID AZULAI (1724-1806) – THE ‘CHIDA’...
RABBI CHAIM YOSEF DAVID AZULAI (1724-1806) – THE ‘CHIDA’ – EXCEPTIONAL SIGNATURE, AND TWO LEARNED MANUSCRIPT NOTES ON SEFER SHAAR EPHRAIM – FIRST EDITION – SULZBACH 1688.
Rare complete artistic signature of the Chida, with two manuscript notes on endpaper of this copy of Shaar Efrayim. The notes are attributed to the Chida or to his son Rabbi Rafael Yeshaya Azulai, Rabbi of Ancona, Italy.
Shaar Ephraim is an important collection of the responsa of Rabbi Ephraim b. Rabbi Yaakov HaCohen (1616-1678), Rabbi of Lissa, Moravia and Hungary.
RABBI CHAIM YOSEF DAVID AZULAI, disciple of Rabbi Chaim ben Atar and of Rabbi Shalom Sharabi, outstanding gaon, kabbalist, commentator, halachic authority and author of some 100 rabbinic works, in addition to numerous marginal notes on large numbers of books and manuscripts acquired during the course of his extensive travels to collect funds to support the poor of the Holy Land.
The Chida’s signature is most distinctive. Members of the Azulai family followed the tradition of their illustrious ancestor Rabbi Avraham Azulai who signed his name by forming the letters into the shape of a ship, to commemorate his miraculous rescue from a sinking ship (as the Chida writes in his entry in Shem Hagedolim).
The particularly extraordinary signature appearing on this copy of the Shaar Ephraim is one of the few extant today that clearly depicts this feature by its shape.
The endpapers of the book contain two long rabbinic notes, with an inscription in an old handwriting saying that these are in the handwriting of the Chida. They bear a resemblance to some of the known manuscripts of the Chida, but a close examination shows an even greater resemblance to the handwriting of his son Rabbi Rafael Yeshaya Azulai the Rabbi of Ancona, Italy.
Stefansky, Sifrei Yesod 302.
114 pp. 19x30.5 cm. Condition – generally good, worming hardly affecting text. Modern binding.
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RABBI CHAIM YOSEF DAVID AZULAI (1724-1806) – THE ‘CHIDA’ – EXCEPTIONAL SIGNATURE, AND TWO LEARNED MANUSCRIPT NOTES ON SEFER SHAAR EPHRAIM – FIRST EDITION – SULZBACH 1688.
Rare complete artistic signature of the Chida, with two manuscript notes on endpaper of this copy of Shaar Efrayim. The notes are attributed to the Chida or to his son Rabbi Rafael Yeshaya Azulai, Rabbi of Ancona, Italy.
Shaar Ephraim is an important collection of the responsa of Rabbi Ephraim b. Rabbi Yaakov HaCohen (1616-1678), Rabbi of Lissa, Moravia and Hungary.
RABBI CHAIM YOSEF DAVID AZULAI, disciple of Rabbi Chaim ben Atar and of Rabbi Shalom Sharabi, outstanding gaon, kabbalist, commentator, halachic authority and author of some 100 rabbinic works, in addition to numerous marginal notes on large numbers of books and manuscripts acquired during the course of his extensive travels to collect funds to support the poor of the Holy Land.
The Chida’s signature is most distinctive. Members of the Azulai family followed the tradition of their illustrious ancestor Rabbi Avraham Azulai who signed his name by forming the letters into the shape of a ship, to commemorate his miraculous rescue from a sinking ship (as the Chida writes in his entry in Shem Hagedolim).
The particularly extraordinary signature appearing on this copy of the Shaar Ephraim is one of the few extant today that clearly depicts this feature by its shape.
The endpapers of the book contain two long rabbinic notes, with an inscription in an old handwriting saying that these are in the handwriting of the Chida. They bear a resemblance to some of the known manuscripts of the Chida, but a close examination shows an even greater resemblance to the handwriting of his son Rabbi Rafael Yeshaya Azulai the Rabbi of Ancona, Italy.
Stefansky, Sifrei Yesod 302.
114 pp. 19x30.5 cm. Condition – generally good, worming hardly affecting text. Modern binding.
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