Auction 43 Tiferet SheBaTiferet - Auction 43
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Mar 5, 2023
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Tiferet SheBaTiferet - Auction 43 of the Tiferet Auction House

Rare and exciting collection of precious items, the best of collectibles and Segulah items: 

Letters by Chassidic shepherds, pedigreed copies of Tzaddikim, manuscripts by leading rabbis, books printed at the pedigreed printeries of Slavuta and Zhytomyr, artifacts that had belonged to Tzaddikim and first editions.

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LOT 10:

Torat Chaim, elucidation on Rabbeinu Bechaye ben Asher, by Rabbi Chaim Hacohen. Livorno, [1894]. The personal ...

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Torat Chaim, elucidation on Rabbeinu Bechaye ben Asher, by Rabbi Chaim Hacohen. Livorno, [1894]. The personal copy of the Rishon LeZion, Rabbi Yaakov Shaul Elyashar, the Yissah Beracha.


Sefer Torat Chaim, elucidation on Rabbeinu Bechaye on the Torah, by Rabbi Chaim ben Rabbi Shlomo Hacohen of Tripoli. Yisrael Kushta Press, Livorno, [1894].


[5], 104 leaves. With an approbation by the Rishon LeZion, Rabbi Yaakov Shaul Elyashar, the Yissah Beracha.

Preceding the title page there is a printed leaf with red lettering, with the author's dedication. By hand, the author added the details of the receiver of the book: "מורנו ורבינו מלך ירושלים הגאון המפו' הרב יש"א ברכה יחי שמו לעולם... אנס"ו" (our teacher and Rav the famed Gaon Rav the Yissah Beracha...). On the lower part of the leaf, the author added by hand Remazim for Sod Kibbutz Galuyot by merit of the Mishnah and Tvilah and Sod Taharat Hamet. 


Rabbi Chaim ben Rabbi Shlomo Hacohen (passed away in 1905) was born in Djerba, Tunisia where he studied with Rabbi Shaul Hacohen and Rabbi Avraham Hacohen. He moved to Tripoli where he served as Dayan and Av Beis Din. Published in his lifetime nineteen books on Halacha, Passover Haggadah, Hoshanot and more. 


New binding with gilt lettering. Some minor stains. Very good condition.  


Measurement:  18 cm

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