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Orot HaMitzvot / Emek Binyamin. The First Halachic "Responsum" by an American Rabbi to a European Rabbi
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Orot HaMitzvot / Emek Binyamin. The First Halachic "Responsum" by an American Rabbi to a European Rabbi
Sefer Orot HaMitzvot - commentaries and hints to the mitzvahs in the Torah per the weekly Torah portions by Rabbi Binyamin Raphael Diash Brandon, a rabbi of the Portuguese community in Amsterdam. Printed and bound in the original with Emek Binyamin - responsa by the same author. Amsterdam, Janson Press, 1753. First edition, complete. Pedigree copy.
The responsa section includes a responsum from Rabbi Aharon Lidishma, a rabbi in Suriname, South America. This responsum is considered the first "responsum" sent by an "American" rabbi to a European rabbi. Regarding this fact, refer to the article "Shu"t B'America" in Otzar Zichronotai by Rabbi Y. D. Eisenstein (New York, 1930), p. 340.
The responsa part, Emek Binyamin, was printed and distributed on its own. This is the original volume with both complete sections. This copy belonged to Mori Shalom Yitzchak HaLevi, rabbi of Yemenite Jews in the Land of Israel.
[16], 103, [1]; [1] 22, [1] leaf. Mispaginated. 18.5 cm.
Moderate-fine condition. Stains and usage marks. Minimal worming perforations, mainly at the end of the volume. Tears with lack in the title page and leaf 10 of Sefer Orot HaMitzvot, without damage to the text. Simple binding.
