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Sefer Sha'arei Shvu'ot, attributed to Rabbi Yitzchak ben Reuven, handwritten by the scribe Yissachar Ber...

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Sefer Sha’arei Shvu’ot, attributed to Rabbi Yitzchak ben Reuven, handwritten by the scribe Yissachar Ber ben Rabbi David of Bilgoray, [1711].


Handwritten composition, [Sefer Sha’arei Shvu’ot], "Twenty chapters on Shvu’ot authored by the Gaon Rav Rabbi Yitzchak ben Rabbi Reuven known as Rav Alfas". The script of the scribe Yissachar Ber ben Rabbi David of Bilgoray, [1711].

[35] leaves. Fine, readable script. The entire composition, including the illustrated title page, was handwritten. The last leaf containing the last lines of the composition is missing.

Enclosed is a photocopy of the last leaf of this composition, photocopied from the Krakow 1597 edition, in which the six lines of text missing from this copy were printed in [6] lines.

In [1522], the printer Daniel Bomberg printed the Hilchot Rav Alfas on tractate Shvu’ot, adding the composition "Twenty Sha’arei Shvu’ot … by the Gaon Rabbi Yitzchak ben Rabbi Reuven, known as Rav Alfas[!]", which deals with Dinim of Shvu’ot Beis Din and begins with the rhymes "עורה בן אדם ולא תהיה נרדם". There are later editions that noted that there are disagreements between the Rif’s method and the method of this composition, suggesting that this composition was written by the Rif’s grandson or by the Rif in his youth, the Rif having recanted the Halachos in his old age.
Some scholars believe the author to be Rabbi Yitzchak ben Rabbi Reuven of Barcelona, who translated the book Sefer Hamekach Vehamimkar by Rav Hai Gaon while others believe that the composition was originally written in Arabic by Rabbi David ben Rabbi Sa’adya and was then translated into Hebrew by Rabbi Yitzchak ben Rabbi Reuven.
See: S.Y. Friedman, Talmud Aruch, Jerusalem 1991, p. 325 note 183; Y. Ta-Shma, Hasifrut haparshanit Latalmud, I, Jerusalem 1999, pp. 170-173; S. Asaf, Sefer Mishpatei Shvu’ot Lerabbi David ben Rabbi Sa’adya, Kiryat Sefer, III, 1926, pp. 295-297.

Semi-leather binding, blemished, dismantled and detached. Loose spine and some leaves that are partly detached. The upper part of the title page is missing. The last leaf is missing. Stains. Fair-good condition.  

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