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LOT 16:
Over LaSocher, On the Science of Arithmetic and Numbers. Venice 1627. Only Rare Edition--Copy of R. Moshe Chalfan ...
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Description:
Sefer Over LaSocher, on the science of numbers and arithmetic, by Rabbi Menachem Tzion Port Cohen Rapa. The title was taken from the biblical episode of Abraham and Ephron, and it is a fitting name for a rabbinic Venetian work on arithmetic.
Only Edition. Venice, 1627. Printed by Alvise and Lorenzo Bragadini. Rare!
One of the earliest works on arithmetic in Hebrew, composed by one of the rabbis of Italy. The entire work is printed in Rashi script, except for the introduction. After the title page is a poem promoting the sefer. In his introduction, the author discusses the importance of learning arithmetic and cites the words of Rabbi Elijah Mizrachi (the Ra’em) in his Sefer HaMispar (Constantinople, 1533). Includes tables and diagrams for performing calculations. Numbers are represented by Hebrew letters, except for the digit 0.
On the tile page & last page stamps of Rabbi "Moshe Chalfin".
Rabbi Moshe Chalfan Lifshitz (died Cheshvan 1830), a leader and influential person in the Warsaw community, father in law of the first Rebbe of Gur, Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Alter, author of "Chidushei HaRim" and of Rebbe Menachem Mendel of Kotzk. The sefer "Siach Sarfei Kodesh" brings many stories about Rabbi Moshe's great holiness. He was a disciple of the Maggid of Kozhnitz and the Chozeh of Lublin who were involved in the match with his son in law author of Chidushei HaRim.
22 Leaves. 19.5 Cm.
Overall Good Condition, stains, one small hole on title page, light marginal worming to first pages, later binding.
Rabbi Menachem ben Rabbi Yaakov HaCohen Rapaport — one of the great Italian scholars in Torah and science “he was an excellent mathematician and astronomer, and his works were highly praised by Andrea Argoli and extolled in Italian sonnets by Tomaso Ercaloni and Benedetto Luzzatto” (JE, Vol. X pp.133-4); see also A. Yaari, Mechkarei Sepher (1958) pp. 303-6.
Rabbi in Trieste and Rosh Yeshiva in Padua. He was among the first members of the Rapa-Port family of kohanim, which originated in Italy and later became known as Rapaport.
