Bidspirit auction | Birkat Avraham (Brudo) – Venice

Birkat Avraham (Brudo) – Venice 1696 – First Edition. Signatures of the Altaras Family and Other Early Sephardic Owners. - Sefer Birkat Avraham, a collection of sermons on the Book of Genesis by Rabbi Avraham Brodo of Constantinople. First Edition. Venice, 1696. Printed at the Bragadin Press. In his introduction, the author relates that the volume contains sermons delivered over a period of more than fifty years in the Jewish communities of Constantinople and Adrianople. Leaf [2] contains the rare approbation of the Chacham Tzvi (Rabbi Tzvi Ashkenazi), in which he explicitly refers to his customary refusal to endorse newly printed seforim: “Never has anyone prevailed upon me to breach my established practice of withholding approbations for newly printed books... But now, as the great luminary has arisen—the eminent Rabbi Avraham Brodo, foremost among the rabbis of Constantinople... and he has commanded me to affix my signature, making it my obligation, I hereby fulfill the words of the Rabbi.” Collation: [4], 100 leaves, out of [6], 103 leaves. 21 Cm. Ownership signatures of Rabbi Yitzchak Altaras.  Ownership signature of Rabbi Moshe Altaras.  Additional early, unidentified Sephardic ownership signatures. Several signatures of Rabbi Avraham Shlomo, son of Rabbi Shalom Meir Goldenboim of Safed, descendant of “the Malach, ” son of the Maggid of Mezritch: son of Rabbi Shalom Meir, son of Rabbi Avraham Shlomo, son of the holy Rabbi Yisrael Chaim of Ludmir, son of the holy Rabbi Avraham HaMalach of Mezritch and son-in-law of the holy Rabbi Shlomo HaLevi of Karlin. Author of Eshel Avraham.