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Lot 288

Three Manuscripts – Morocco

• Handwritten booklet, Azharot for the Laws of Shechita, a didactic halachic poem by Rabbi Masud ben Shabbat, apparently in his handwriting. At the end of the booklet is his stamp "Masud ebn Yitzchak Shabbat from the city of Sus" – Rabbi Masud ben Shabbat was a Torah scholar in Casablanca and in Tardane.
• Manuscript, thoughts and homiletics on the Torah weekly portions and for other occasions [some were compiled from various books], by Rabbi Shlomo Asaraf. Ouled Berhil (Morocco), [c. 1828]. Includes lists of deaths from a later time.
• Manuscript, Chana and her Seven Sons [in Jewish-Arabic]; lamentations for Tisha B'Av and for mourning the dead [some in Jewish-Arabic], [North Africa; Morocco?].
Varied size and condition.