Pedigreed. Single edition. Beit Yisrael, Drushim by Rabbi Yisrael Benvanisti. Kushta, 1678.

The ...

Pedigreed. Single edition. Beit Yisrael, Drushim by Rabbi Yisrael Benvanisti. Kushta, 1678.

The book of Drushim, Beit Yisrael, contains 52 Drushim on varied subjects, including nine eulogies for women. In his other sermons, he also praises Kosher women. 

Chacham Rabbi Yisrael Benvanisti was born to his father Chacham Eliezer Benvanisti, who was also his first Rav, in Kushta. His leading Rav was his uncle Chacham Yehoshua Benvanisti author of Sdeh Yehoshua. Corresponded with his uncle, the Chaviv - Chacham Chaim Benvanisti author of Knesset Hagdolah, who praised hi sgreatness: "אור ישראל וקדושו, פאר הדור והדרו, אביר הרועים החכם השלם הדיין המצוין נשא ורם כמוהר"ר ישראל בנבנשת נר"ו"

Although the year of printing is 1678, it can be assumed it ended earlier since words of blessings by his uncle, Chacham Chaim Benvanisti, who passed away in 1673, were added to the book. 

in the Rare Book Collection of the National Library.

On the title page, the signature of Rabbi Chzikiya Raphael Chaim Alfandri, one of the rabbis of Salonika and Jerusalem. 

Shlomo Franco Press, Kushtandina

[2], 114 leaves. 

New embossed binding. 

Moth damage, Water stains. Some mold. 

Some leaves with worn edges, in two of them, slightly affecting the text and in the others, only the pagination. 

Good-fair condition.