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Sefer Ma'amatz Koach - R. Moshe Almoshnino, Venice 1588. Copy of R. Eliezer Silver of ...
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Sefer Ma'amatz Koach - R. Moshe Almoshnino, Venice 1588. Copy of R. Eliezer Silver of Cincinnati.
Contains twenty-eight Derashos and Eulogies given at periods. The first sermon published within was given in 1565, while on a special mission to Constantinople on behalf of the Jewish Community of Salonica, as detailed below.
Personal copy of the famed R. Eliezer Silver, with his personal stamps seen throughout.
Rabbi Moses Almosnino, a 16th-century scholar born to a distinguished family of Spanish origin, was educated in general and Jewish studies and served as rabbi of two congregations in Salonica, then part of the Ottoman Empire. Fluent in several languages, Almosnino joined a 1565 delegation to Constantinople to obtain confirmation of Jewish rights from the sultan. While there, he composed an important historical and descriptive work on the city and its people. Almosnino’s legal opinions are preserved primarily through quotations, but many works on Bible, Talmud, philosophy, and other areas survive.
Minor old repairs to a few leaves, bound in an old binding, top cover and several pages detached.
236 pp.
