Torat Haim Torath Chaim. Sefer Torat hayim: ve-hu tikun le-lel ha-shishi le-arba'ah shavu'ot sheba-hodesh : mażamre ha-Zohar ve-Tanakh u-tefilot ha-shayakhim kodem ha-limud ule-aharav ka-asher nahagu be-'are ha-ma'arav . kemo she-huva ba-sefer Hemdat yamim

Edrehi, Moses ben Isaac [c. 1774 in Agadir, Morocco - c. 1842 Jerusalem, Eretz Israel], editor. Moshe ben Yitzhak

Published by Yehuda Leib ben Alexander, London, 1792

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Vinograd #135. OCLC: Libraries worldwide that own item: 9. Kabbalistic prayers for Friday nights customarily recited in the Eastern cities of Morocco, according to the Chemdat HaYamin. [3], 52 leaves [i.e. 6, 104 pages] , title printed within ornamental border, modern 3/4 leather, morocco-backed paper boards. Light staining, browning and foxing, a few marginal repairs, wide margins, typographic title-border. Title within typographic border. Edrehi was a Moroccan scholar and itinerant preacher in North Africa before coming to London in 1791, studied in the Sephardic Bet Hamidrash Etz Hayyim, preaching there on every Sabbath. He was a child prodigy and started preaching at the age of 14. After publication of the present work he left for Amsterdam, where he published YAD MOSHE, a collection of sermons, and MA'ASEH NISSIM, tales of the ten tribes with a Yiddish translation, a book which was later translated into English. This is the first of five books that he published in various places around the world. About 1829 he met the writer John Wilson ("Christopher North") in Edinburgh who described him in his series Noctes Ambrosianae in Blackwood's Magazine. Edrehi finally left for Erez Israel, traveling by way of France, Italy, Malta, and Smyrna and taking four years on the journey. The 'Tikun' is arranged according to the book Chemdat HaYamin. Translation of inscriptions: En makom panuy belo shekhina (God's Presence is everywhere). From my father, the famous sage Yehuda Blumberg. God presence is everywhere. Yona Duber son of Yehuda Blumberg of [?]. Seller Inventory # 005599

Bibliographic Details

Title: Torat Haim Torath Chaim. Sefer Torat hayim: ...

Publisher: Yehuda Leib ben Alexander, London

Publication Date: 1792

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition