Lot 433
Writings of Salonika Sages– 17th Century
Handwirtten pages probably taken out of binding [Salonika],[about 1640].
First page contains the question by Rabbi Avraham Falcon (signed) with part of reply by Rabbi Daniel Estrosa. He was among the sages of Salonika in the first half of the 17th century].
This reply was printed (a hundred years after it was written) in shut magen giborim (Salonika 1753). The writing in front of us is probably the autographic writing of Rabbi Avraham Falcon.
Rabbi Avraham Falcon (d. 1657), one of Salonika's great Sages, was a teacher in the Yeshiva of Rabbi Shlomo Ben Mayer in Ba'aley Teshuvot [synagogue of Marrano community]. His friend Rabbi Daniel Estrosa (1581(?)-Tishrei 1653) also one of the most remarkable sages in Salonika. Pupil Rabbi Mordechai Kalai and Rabbi Yitzchak Franco. Rosh Yeshiva and Dayan of Yichya Community [of the Portugese Synagogue in Salonika], his students were "great in wisdom and in good deeds" and some of them were appointed rabbis in of Turkey. Hundreds of pupils learned in his Yeshivah. One of his better known pupils was Rabbi Daviv Konforti, author of "Kore Hadorot" and Rabbi Yitchak Dalba the Rabbi of Shabtai Zvi (see enclosed material).
8 pages. Varying size and condition, fair to poor. Glue stains and tears with omission.
