Lot 145
Sefer Maor VaShemesh - Livorno, 1839 - Copy that Belonged to Rabbis
Sefer Maor VaShemesh, Kabbalistic commentary on the Torah, by R. Avraham Koriat, including piyyutim by the author and a commentary of R. Hai Gaon to the prayer "Aleinu Leshabe'ach". Livorno, [1839].
Kabbalistic commentary to the Torah, based on the teachings of the Ari, Ramban, Sefer HaMalchut by R. Avraham Halevi, and R. Yehuda Ibn Attar, grandfather of the author.
Preceding the title page is an ownership inscription stating that the book belonged to "the famous Tzaddik… light of Israel… R. Yaakov Yitzchak of Wola near Magnuszew" [possibly Wola Magnuszewska, Poland].
On the title page: ownership stamps and signatures of R. "Yaakov David… Yudkowitz, rabbi of Grojec". R. Yaakov David Yudkowitz (died 1893), son of R. Yechiel Halpern of Kalisch, rabbi of Grojec, was previously rabbi in the communities of Serock and Zukowice. He left many manuscripts on all areas of Torah scholarship: responsa, commentary on the Torah and Prophets, commentary on the Talmud, Shulchan Aruch and Aggada. Only a small number of these manuscripts have been published in the Sefer Yad Haketana (Warsaw, 1909). His son, R. Alexander Dan Yudkowitz, was the author of Sefer Orach Mishor (Lodz, 1933).
[3], 3-11, [1], 128 leaves. 19.5 cm. Good condition. Slight staining. New binding.
The location on the title page is written as "Liv-OR-no", (a play on the title, MaOR). The author's name is also written with poetic license as: "I am the small Yaktan, smallest of the small" (Yaktan forms the Hebrew acronym "Yehuda Koriat may his light shine clearly"). However, the name of the author is clearly mentioned in the approbations and in the introduction of R. Elijah Benamozegh, nephew and disciple of the author.
