Lot 512
Sermon Manuscript – Unknown Author, 1871
Manuscript, Halachic and Aggadic sermons, sermons for Shabbat Teshuva and Shabbat Kalah, admonitions and more, [1871].
Autographical writing by the author in semi-quill Oriental calligraphy. Based on the content of the manuscript, it appears that the author was an outstanding Torah scholar who delivered those sermons in public. The following is written on one of the sermons’ titles: “This is a sermon I have delivered at a Shabbat Kalah in the Great Synagogue, 1871". In that sermon the author quotes a commentary in the name of his father on the Psalm verse “Ve-Yekar Pidyon Nafsham”. In a different sermon, he mentions words by "the great genius of the generation rabbi…". On other titles he writes: “this is a sermon I have put together for Shabbat Teshuva”; “this is what I have innovated”; and more.
There is also a eulogy for a Torah scholar [Dayan] who had requested not to be eulogized, the author begins his words debating whether or not it is mandatory to fulfill the sage’s will and if it would be permissible to eulogize him anyway.
Over 50 columns, about 12 X 37.5 cm. Varying conditions ranking from good to poor. Wear damage, one of the sermons is severely affected by a rodent’s bite. Most leaves are in good condition.
