Bidspirit auction | SAMIGAH, YOSEPH BEN BINYAMIN. Pirush

SAMIGAH, YOSEPH BEN BINYAMIN. Pirush Derech Yamin. FIRST EDITION.  Complete as issued, without a title-page. ff. 20, (2). Manuscript page at end. Vinograd, Venice 1021. (Venice 1606). RARE. A Halachic response to “Yemin Hashem Romemah” (Venice, 1605). See Kestenbaum Sale 106, lot 90. Concerns the Halachic dispute over the waving of the Lulav, and correct practices in general regarding precedence of right-side over left-side, based upon the Talmud dictum (Sotah 15b): ”All turns that one turns should always be to the right.” For a short biography of this Turkish born Talmudist who died in 1629 during his leadership of the yeshiva in Venice, see https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13063-samegah-samigah-joseph-ben-benjamin