Auction 3
By Prime Judaica
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Oct 20, 2020
30 9th Street, Lakewood NJ 08701, USA, United States
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LOT 21:
Divrei Dovid, Amsterdam 1753, First edition, Rare.
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Divrei Dovid, Amsterdam 1753, First edition, Rare.
Divrei David. Responsa and piskei dinim by Rabbi David Meldola. Amsterdam, [1753]. First edition.
Part of the sefer discusses the polemic relating to the Torah reading on the Shabbat of a wedding according to the Sephardic custom. The debate was stirred by an incident in the Pisa community in 1736, and caused a stormy halachic polemic that spread to a number of countries. With a lengthy dedication in Portuguese, with all the leaves of approbations and many poems.
Pages: 3, 2-24, 240. Lacking pages 174-175.
Size: 18 cm.
Condition: Very fine condition, few very small damages effecting a few letters, lacking 2 pages in the middle.
