Bidspirit auction | ALFALAS, MOSHE Sefer Ho’il Moshe


ALFALAS, MOSHE Sefer Ho’il Moshe [sermons]. FIRST EDITION. Title set within architectural arch. ff. 139, (8). Trimmed. Modern half-morocco. 8vo. Vinograd, Venice 830. Venice: Daniel Zanetti 1597 The late 16th-century preacher Moses Alfalas was a native of Tetuan, Spanish Morocco. A contemporary of the MaHaRa”L, R. Judah Löw of Prague, he too employed philosophical terms in his sermons, giving them novel meaning. The late 16th-century preacher Moses Alfalas was a native of Tetuan, Spanish Morocco. A contemporary of the MaHaRa”L, R. Judah Löw of Prague, he too employed philosophical terms in his sermons, giving them novel meaning.