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Sheiltot D’Rav Achai Gaon – First ...

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Sheiltot D’Rav Achai Gaon – First edition. Venice, 1546, collection of distinguished signatures.

Sheiltot D’Rav Achai Gaon – Halachic decisions in the order of the weekly Torah readings by Rabbi Achai of Shabḥa, a leading scholar in the time of the Geonim. First edition at the press of Daniel Bomberg.
This book of Sheiltot was the first halachic work written after the closing of the Talmud, and is a fundamental halachic works. The Rishonim wrote that his decisions should be relied upon as if they were written in the Talmud. (Shu”t Maharam of Rottenberg siman 310).
Rav Achai of Shabḥa was a prominent Torah scholar from the Pumbedisa Yeshivah in Babylon. He lived in the first century of the Geonic Period and moved to Eretz Yisrael at the end of his life.

Venice [1546]. First, rare edition.
61 [1] leaf. 29.5 cm.
Moderate condition with worming damage. Antiquated, blemished binding.
Stefansky, Sifrei Yesod 219.

Antiquated, distinguished owner signatures at the beginning of the book:

1. אי"ש צעיר: Apparently referring to Rabbi Eliyahu Yisrael av”d Alexandria, author of Shu"t Kol Eliyahu and more, who generally signed his responsa with this name.

2. עזוז בן לא"א כה"ר שמעון נחמני . (With a line crossing out the signature), prominent Alexandria sage in his time. He is mentioned in the Divrei Yosef of Rabbi Yosef Sambari (Ahavat Shalom edition, p. 224) and in the Kore Hadorot of Rabbi Dovid Conforte (leaf 41a). His responsa and approbations are found in the works of the sages of his time; Shu”t Rabbi Betzalel Ashkenazi (siman 25); Shu’t Rana”ch (siman 95) and Shu”t Maharshach (section three, siman 49). His beit medrash in Alexandria was called Beit Knesset Azuz. He was forced to flee to ברוסה, where he passed away. A few of his teshuvot have been preserved in manuscript Cincinnati 160 (Refer to E. Eliav Shochetman, Mevoh L’shu"t Maharam Gabizon p. 87).

3. Rabbi Yaakov ibn Sangi (?) – Rabbi in Constantinople, brother of Rabbi Eliezer ben Sangi, author of the Dat V’Din. He spent his time studying Torah with his brother (refer to the introduction to  Dat V’Din and Shem HaGedolim, in the entry on Rabbi Eliezer ibn Sangi).
4. Rabbi Nissim Avraham Ashkenazi – prominent Izmir sage, from the beit din of and assistant to Rabbi Chaim Palagi, leading the city of Izmir, author of Nechmad L’Mareh and more.

Additional signatures and notations, refer to pictures in this catalog.


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