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

(ALEPPO). Chaim ben Betzalel. Igereth HaTiyul [short commentaries: Peshat, Remez, Drash and Sod]. ff. 32. Some staining, marginal paper repair on title, taped repair on f. 4, small perforation on leaves not affecting text. Later wrappers. 12mo. Ya’ari, Aleppo 7; and see D. Sutton, Aleppo: City of Scholars no. 191. Aleppo (Aram Tzovah): Eliyahu Hai Sasson 1872 A fascinating conflation of Jewish cultural backgrounds: A work first composed in Prague in 1605 by the brother of the Mahara’l, here reissued more than two centuries later in the ancient city of Aleppo, Syria; and in which the editor, Moshe Mordehai Dayan, includes an endorsement penned by the Chassidic Rebbe Avraham Joshua Heschel of Apt, noting that all the author’s words “are pearls…imbued with a holy spirit”. A fascinating conflation of Jewish cultural backgrounds: A work first composed in Prague in 1605 by the brother of the Mahara’l, here reissued more than two centuries later in the ancient city of Aleppo, Syria; and in which the editor, Moshe Mordehai Dayan, includes an endorsement penned by the Chassidic Rebbe Avraham Joshua Heschel of Apt, noting that all the author’s words “are pearls…imbued with a holy spirit”.