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Lot 136:

'Pitron Chalomot'. From the Printing Press of Rabbi Menache ben Yisrael! about Chalomot (dreams) and annotations on verses of Chazal, authored by Rabbi Shlomo Almoli. Amsterdam, 1637.

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Sefer ‘Pitron Chalomot’, on the subject of dreams and annotations on verses of Chazal, authored by the Chacham Rabbi Shlomo Almoli, was from the deportees of Spain, and from scholars of Kushta, Salinici, and Amsterdam 1637. From the first printed editions. 

The sefer was printed in the Press of the great Chacham Rabbi Menashe ben Yisrael, which was the first Hebrew printing press in Amsterdam, the city was later revolutionized to one of the important book publisher centers for the Jewish communities in the diaspora.

Chacham Rabbi Menashe ben Yisrael (1604-1657), from great sages of Amstersam in his generation, lived several years in Brazil and England, he toiled a lot for the prohibition on the entry of the Jews to the British Island, and even met there with Oliver Cromwell, he was in touch with many great and intellectuals of the nations of the world who revered him greatly. (Among Christina the Queen of Sweden) Even though he wrote the following: "ואני תפילות לאל לא עשיתי חכמות חיצוניות קבע". 

13 cm, 63 pages.
Stained, individual moth holes, professional rehabilitation on the cover page and on some additional pages, beautiful new leather cover. Very good – excellent condition.