Bidspirit auction | (ALEPPO). Chaim ben Betzalel. Igereth

(ALEPPO). Chaim ben Betzalel. Igereth HaTiyul [short commentaries: Peshat, Remez, Drash and Sod]. ff. 32. Worn, lower margin chewed, f.27 taped. Unbound. 12mo. Ya’ari, Aleppo 7; and see D. Sutton, Aleppo: City of Scholars no. 191. Aleppo (Aram Tzovah) Eliahu Hai Sasson, 1872 A fascinating conflation of Jewish cultural backgrounds: A work composed first in Prague in 1605 by the brother of the Maharal, here reprinted more than two centuries later in the ancient city of Aleppo, Syria, in which the editor, Moshe Mordehai Dayan, includes an endorsement for the work penned by the Chassidic Rebbe Abraham Joshua Heschel of Apt, noting that all the author’s words “are pearls… imbued with a holy spirit”.