Midrash Rabbot with various commentaries, on Bamidbar, Devarim and the Five Megillot. [Amsterdam, 1725].
On the first leaf, dedication from the emissary R. Avraham Halua of Jerusalem: "I sold this book to R. Mordechai Babaye… May he merit to study it, him and his sons… so are the words of the emissary of the Kollel of the Maghrebi communities in Jerusalem, Avraham Halua".
The book contains some twenty glosses in neat handwriting, half of them lengthy, with homiletic contents.
The emissary R. Avraham Halua (1858-1924, Sheluchei Eretz Israel p. 754), a Torah scholar and rabbi of Jerusalem. Born in Jerusalem, he studied in its yeshivot. At the age of 29, he set out on a mission on behalf of the Sephardi and Maghrebi Kollelot in Jerusalem, to the Arab world, Persia, North Africa and the Balkans. His final mission was on behalf of the Beit Kel yeshiva of kabbalists, to various countries, and with the conclusion of his mission, he settled in Livorno. He published his book Minchat Avraham on the Torah in 1901.
Copy lacking approximately half: 177-246 leaves; [1], 2-95 leaves (originally: [3], 109, 30 [i.e. 130]-246; 95 leaves). 34 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains and wear. Worming to final leaves. Damage to last leaf. Early leather binding, worn.