Manuscript, Shesh Kenafayim, homilies on the Mishnah stating that every Jew has a portion in the World to Come, by R. Reuven son of R. Avraham Moshe. [Quba (Azerbaijan), 1871].
Neat Oriental script. Illustrated title page, depicting the Tablets of the Law and six–winged putti. Colophon at the end, stating the date of completion – Monday, 20th Av 1871, the place of writing – Quba, and the name of the scribe.
Shesh Kenafayim comprises six homiletic ways of explaining the Mishnah "Kol Yisrael", with commentaries to sayings of the sages and other topics. Unpublished work.
R. Reuven son of R. Avraham Moshe was a Torah scholar in Azerbaijan. There are other known works and manuscripts he authored and copied in Quba in the second half of the 19th century.
Quba is in northern Azerbaijan, and was the main seat of the Mountain Jews (see Hebrew sidebar).

[66] leaves. 18 cm. Good–fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Margins of several leaves trimmed (without damage to text). Inscriptions. New binding.

Exhibition:
• "The Mountain Jews", exhibition catalog, the Israel Museum, 2001, p. 108–109.
• Only on paper: Six Centuries of Judaica from the Gross Family Collection, CD, 2005.
Provenance: The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, AZB.011.002.