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Shenat HaSheva (by Rabbi Moshe Nechemiah Kahanov) – Hundred-Copy Print Run – Jerusalem, 1881

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Shenat HaSheva, with Be'er Sheva, booklet on laws of the shemitah year by R. Moshe Nechemiah Kahanov. Jerusalem: Yoel Moshe Salomon, 1881.


In a note on p. 31a the author writes that due to the untimely death of his son during the printing of the book, he was compelled to publish it in brief with many omissions, in a limited print run of 100 copies (due to lack of funds).


32 leaves. Missing leaves 33-34. 18.5 cm. Dry, brittle paper. Fair-good condition. Stains. Tears, including open tears to margins of title page and several other leaves, slightly affecting title frame and text on verso (last leaf repaired with paper filling). New binding.


Does not contain leaves 33-34 of Zichron Yosef, with the author's eulogy for his son R. Yosef Chaim Eliyah and with a lament written by the son for another untimely death.


Sh. Halevy, no. 382.

Early Hebrew Books and Broadsides Printed in Jerusalem
Early Hebrew Books and Broadsides Printed in Jerusalem