Sefer Orot HaMitzvot [and] Sefer Emek Benyamin
Language: Hebrew
Published by Amsterdam, 1753
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Seller: Meir Turner, New York, NY, U.S.A.Meir Turner
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In Hebrew. 175 x 113 mm. Water staining, browning and soiling. First book: Orot HaMitzvot, lacks the first five leaves, the first of which, the title page, is here in facsimile. There are here 11 unnumbered leaves, followed by leaves numbered 1 to 103, followed by an unnumbered leaf, which is the end of the first book. Second book, complete, Emek Binyamin: leaves: (2), 1 to 22. They works deal wit she'elot vetshuvot, piskey halacha and dinim. In Emek Binyamin, Rabbi Benjamin Brandon of Amsterdam asks for the legal opinion of Rabbi Aaron Lidishman of Surinam, South America, on a matter of Jewish law relating to inheritance. This is the first instance of a European rabbi turning to an American rabbi of his judicial opinion. Rabbi Brandon was a Dutch Talmudist and Hebrew author, who died c. 1750 in Amsterdam, where he was cantor. He wrote: "Orot ha-Miẓwot" (Lights of the Precepts), on the purpose of the Biblical and the Talmudic precepts (Amsterdam, 1753); and "'Emeḳ Binyamin" (Valley of Benjamin), on halakhic problems suggested by his friends in Amsterdam. Last page of the second book has oval red ink rubber stamp impression of former owner, in Hebrew: "Menachem Israel Sulman . Jerusalem". Rabbi Menachem Israel Shulman (Sulman, Schulman). (1882 - October 28, 1927 (44-45) is buried in the Mt of Olives, Jerusalem, Israel. Immediate Family: son of Moshe Gedalya Shulman and Esther Rivka Shulman, nee Friedman. Menachem was the father of Shmuel Baruch Shulman; Yitzchak Mordechai Shulman; Simcha Etinger; Sima Sheindel Shulman and 1 other, and the brother of Reb Simcha Shmuel Shulman; Avraham Yosef Shulman; Baruch Shulman; Shlomo Dov Shulman; Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Shulman and 3 others.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Sefer Orot HaMitzvot [and] Sefer Emek Benyamin
- Author
- Rabbi Benjamin Raphael Dias Brandon (Refael Dias Brandon). Died c. 1750
- Publisher
- Amsterdam
- Publication year
- 1753
- Condition
- Far
- Binding
- No Binding
- Language
- Hebrew
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