Bidspirit auction | CHAGIZ, SHMUEL. Mevakesh Hashem [sermons

CHAGIZ, SHMUEL. Mevakesh Hashem [sermons and homilies on the weekly Torah portion]. FIRST EDITION. ff. 258, (8). Old boards. 4to. Vinograd, Venice 823. Venice, Giovanni di Gara, 1596. R. Samuel Hagiz (d.1633) was the scion of a distinguished family of Spanish exiles resident in Fez, Morocco, where he served as Rosh Yeshiva. His son Ya’akov, founded and headed the celebrated Beth Ya’akov Yeshiva in Jerusalem. While in Venice to publish his books Devar Shmuel and Mevakesh Hashem, R. Samuel Hagiz served as proofreader in another press, perhaps to defray some of the expenses of the journey from Morocco to Italy. “His participation in the life of the presses inaugurated an involvement in Hebrew printing that was to last through to the generation of Moses Hagiz.” See E. Carlebach, The Pursuit of Heresy: Rabbi Moses Hagiz and the Sabbatian Controversies (1990) p. 20.