Auction 10 Ancient books, & Rabbis Letters.
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Letter (partially damaged) from Rav Yeshua Sbabu Zein, Av Beis Din of Egypt, Author of Perach Shoshan. To ...

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Letter (partially damaged) from Rav Yeshua Sbabu Zein, Av Beis Din of Egypt, Author of Perach Shoshan. To the renowned printer, Yonah Ashkenazi in Constantinople. Egypt, 5486 [1726]


Handwritten and signed letter by Rav Yeshua Sbabo Zein, Av Beis Din of Egypt, author of Perach Shoshan.

In his letter, the Perach Shoshan requests from the printer Rav Yonah Ashkenazi to send 20 copies of Responsa Mateh Yosef to Tzefas, to his father-in-law Rav Yosef Halevi that Rav Yehoshua printed in Rav Yonah's press.

Additionally, he requests that if the printing of Perach Shoshan is completed, that he should send him it as well. (In actuality, the Perach Shoshan's printing was not completed until 5490!!)

In his letter, Rav Yehoshua relates that he traveled to the upper Galil to daven at the kivrei tzaddikim, and was sure that by the time he returned, the sefarim would already be in Egypt.


Rav Yeshua Sbabo, Deydeye Zein, of the great sages of Egypt. A close disciple of Rav Avraham Halevi, Av Beis Din of Egypt, author of Responsa Ginas Veradim and son-in-law of the Mateh Yosef.


The Chida, in sefer Shem Gedolim greatly praises him: "At age 17, he wrote psakim and would show them to Rav Ginas Veradim, and was humble, a man of good deeds...and the Rav was very fluent in dinim and in the sefarim of the poskim, and I heard that the great Rav...Rav Yisrael Zevi [author of Urim Gedolim] would praise him, that according to majority, in his psakim he says truth and halacha is as he says, and he wrote sefer Perach Shoshan, and wrote two works of drushim and called them "Shaarey Torah" and "Shaarey Orah", and also wrote a great sefer of responsa and called it "Shaarey Yeshua" with two volumes...."(Shaarey Yeshua, Orach Chaim, printed in 5748) [Until 5748, the sefer was in handwritten copies only.]


Egypt 5486 [1726]. 14x19 cm.

The letter is torn at the lower portion, with damage (fixed with paper reinforcement).


Folded paper. On the folded paper is a prayer for sustenance by Doctor Yaakov Chai Tzahalon. In handwriting: Emanuel ben Shmuel Atias.



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