Lot 168
Four Books Printed in the 16th-17th Centuries - (Signature of Rabbi Avraham Alkalai, Author of Zechor L'Avraham)
Collection of books (incomplete copies) printed in the 16 th -17 th centuries:
On the first leaf is the signature of Rabbi "Avraham Alkalai" author of Zechor L'Avraham, and on the line above, his son Rabbi Shmuel Alkalai adds his signature "Shmuel".
Rabbi Avraham Alkalai, author of Zechor L'Avraham (1759-1811), an exceptional well-known Torah scholar of Salonika. From 1780, served as dayan and Torah authority in Dovnitza (Bulgaria) and after the death of the Rabbi of the city, Rabbi Avraham Sid, he was appointed his successor. In 1819, he ascended to Eretz Israel and settled in Safed. He wrote the Chesed L’Avraham responsa, and his famous Zechor L’Avraham (halachic rulings in alphabetical order) became one of the basic books for Halacha study and is mentioned often in the books of the poskim.
His son Rabbi Shmuel Alkalai, a rabbi in Tiberias, [mentioned in the introduction to the book Chesed L’Avraham Salonika 1813, signed with Tiberias rabbis on the emissary writ of Rabbi Yehuda Nechmad from 1831].
• Tzror HaMor. Rabbi Avraham Seba. Venice 1545. Printed by Marco Antonio Justinian, second edition. (missing title page, replaced with photocopy, worm holes and restorations. New semi-leather binding).
• Kuzari. Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi. Venice 1547, printed by Meir ben Ya'akov Frentzoni. (missing last 6 leaves replaced with photocopies).
• Sefer HaTerumot. Rabbi Shmuel HaSardi the Ramban's disciple. Prague 1605, printed by Moshe ben Rabbi Bezalel Katz. (missing title page, damaged leaves, worm holes).
4 books, varied size and condition, good-fair to fair-poor.
