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First edition of HaGra’s elucidation on the Nevi’im and Ketuvim: Sefer Arba’ah VeEsrim, IV, Grodo and Vilna, [1820]. The copy of the cousin of Maran the Ben Ish Chai, Rabbi Raphael Yosef Sholom.
Sefer Arba’ah VeEsrim, IV: Yechezkel and Trei Assar, with an Aramaic translation, Rashi’s and Metzudus’ commentary and an elucidation translated into Yiddish. The press of Menachem Mann Ben Baruch [Rom] and Simcha Zimel ben Menachem Nachum [Typography], Grodno and Vilna, [1820]. With the handwritten signature of Rabbi Raphael Yosef Sholom. At the end of the volume Minchas Shai, with a special title page. HaGra’s elucidation on Yechezkel was printed in its place, while the elucidation on Hoshe’a and Chavakuk is printed at the end of the volume. This is the first edition of HaGra’s elucidation on the Nevi’im and Ketuvim. These elucidations were later printed (with additions) in the Sefer "Aderes Eliyahu" (Jerusalem, [1905?]).
[2], 134 leaves, 20 cm. Two title pages, the second one detailed. The Yiddish elucidation is in Tzor characters. Owner’s notation on the title page by Rabbi Raphael Yosef Sholom.
Rabbi Raphael Yosef Sholom – the cousin of Maran the Ben Ish Chai. The son of Rabbi Abdallah and the grandson of the Rav of Baghdad and the leading Rav of Babylon Rabbi Moshe Chaim. In 1841, he immigrated to Eretz Yisroel, was appointed the head of Kollelos HaSepharadim in Hebron and printed a booklet titled "Edus BiYehosef". He purchased a courtyard in Jerusalem and after he moved to live in Damascus, someone fraudulently sold his courtyard to another. Subsequently, the members of the Beis Din of Baghdad wrote in 1893 a letter to the Rishon LeZion and his Beis Din a request to save the deprived and stand by the side of the grandson of the leading Sage of Babylon. Rabbi Raphael Yosef Sholom passed away in 1897.
See Vinograd, Otzar Sifrei haGra, no. 24.
Worn binding, detached front binding, moth damage, stains, blemishes to the corner of the last leaf, fair condition.
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