Bidspirit auction | Unrecorded: Milchemet Mitzvah 1869 -

Unrecorded: Milchemet Mitzvah 1869 - Simanei Re'ashim U-Re'amim with Boker Yizrach Czernowitz 1867. - 1 . Milchemet Mitzvah. 1869. Milchemet Mitzvah, a polemical work directed against those who dared to cast aspersions upon the words of the Sages of the Talmud and to find fault with that which is holy, by Rabbeinu Shlomo ben Rabbi Shimon Duran (Rashbash). No place of publication, 1869.  An unrecorded edition, absent from the standard bibliographies, including Bet Eked Sefarim and the Hebrew Bibliography Project. It has never appeared at public auction. [18] leaves. 13.5 cm. 2. Simanei Re'ashim U-Re'amim Ve-Likui Me'orot, Attributed to the Ari. Chernivtsi, 1867. Simanei Re'ashim U-Re'amim (”Signs of Earthquakes and Thunder”), describing the omens associated with earthquakes, traditionally attributed to the Ari (Rabbi Isaac Luria). Bound together with Boker Yizrach, a guide to the Blessing of the Sun (Birkat HaChamah), with its own separate title page. Chernivtsi, 1867. The work explains the significance of various heavenly and natural phenomena, including earthquakes, thunder, and eclipses, arranged according to the months of the Hebrew year, with each month associated with different signs and portents. Among its statements is: ”If earthquakes occur repeatedly, from Tishrei until Nisan, once each month or even twice...” The work presents itself as an esoteric treatise revealing the hidden meanings of celestial signs, earthquakes, eclipses, and related phenomena. At the end of the volume, under a separate title page, is the pamphlet Boker Yizrach, containing the order of the Blessing of the Sun, which was to be recited the year following the publication of the booklet, in 1868. 15, [1] leaves.