Copies of Prominent Sephardic Rabbis – Signatures – Dedication – Handwritten Glosses

a. Aruch HaShulchan, the large work of Rabbi Yitzchak Taib, on Choshen Mishpat, part one. Livorno 1815 – First edition.
On the title page is a signature: For the service of my Creator, the young one Eliyahu Chaazan,” – Av Beit Din of Alexandria author of “Ta’alumot Lev” (1845-1908), son of Rabbi Yosef Rafael Chazan son of the Rishon L’Zion Rabbi Chaim David Chazan. He immigrated to Jerusalem together with his grandfather Rabbi Chaim David Chazan in 1856, and was ordained to the rabbinate by him in 1865. In 1869, he served as a Dayan in Jerusalem and from 1889 served as Chacham Bashi and the Chief Rabbi of Alexandria.
Good condition, front binding is missing, a few moth holes.
b. Zera Avraham – Novaelle on the tractates of the Talmud, Rambam and Shulchan Aruch, with the booklet “Sinai B’Kodesh” on all of the Halachot L’Moshe MiSinai. By Rabbi Avraham Katorza. Livorno 1891 – first edition.
Among the book’s leaves are three long scholarly comments in the handwriting of Rabbi Eliyahu Taib.
On page 106 is a comment with the signature of “Ne’eman” – Rabbi Meir Mazuz, the Rosh Yeshiva of “Kisei Rachamim” Bnei Brak. An early gloss, from the period before he immigrated to Israel from Djerba.
Rabbi Eliyahu David Taib (also signs Elt”I S”T - Eliyahu Taib”, lived in the mid 19th century, prodigy of the pedigreed dynasty of the great sages of the Taib family. He was one of the great Tunisian scholars in the period of Rabbi Yisrael Zeitun and Rabbi Moshe Citrog. He was a member of the Rabbinic Committee of Tunis.
The year of his death is unknown (he was no longer alive in 1935). He was renowned among the Tunisian scholars and mentioned in the books of the sages of his generation. His teachings were compiled in the responsa “Zecher Eliyahu”.
Before us are Torah novaelle by him which were never published!
Condition: Good – Fair. Moth damage. Title page is missing.
c. Tnuvot Shadai, two parts, by Rabbi David Katorza, Chief Rabbi of Tunis. Djerba, 1936, single edition.
Part one – Rulings and responsa on the Yoreh Deah section of the Shulchan Aruch, Part two (with a special title page) – novaelle. On the rear side of the title page is the author’s dedication in his handwriting and with his signature, with the stamp of the Chief Rabbinate of Tunisia. The author (died in 1940) one of the great Tunisian sages, disciple of Rabbi Shlomo Dana author of “Shilmei Todah” and Rabbi of Rabbi Matzliach Mazuz. Authored many books which remained in manuscript form.
(4) 51, 122, (9), (1) 27, 64, (2) leaves.

d. Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim, Vilna 1873.
On the title page is an ownership stamp of Rabbi Shlomo Musayov, one of the leaders of the Bukharan congregation in Jerusalem in the late 19th century and one of the founders of the Bukharan Neighborhood. On the endpaper is an ownership inscription “This book belongs to the great Rabbi, the crown of the Torah Rabbi Yisrael…in the holy congregation of Lida”. Among the book’s leaves are amendments in his handwriting.
Good overall condition.