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Rare with notes: Kehunat Olam/Imrei Shefer. First edition, Istanbul 1740. Signatures of rabbis from the Meyuchas family.

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Rare with notes: Kehunat Olam/Imrei Shefer. First edition, Istanbul 1740. Signatures of rabbis from the Meyuchas family.

Sefer Kehunat Olam on halachot of gittin and kiddushin, interest and more. By Rabbi Moshe HaKohen of Istanbul, with an additional work at the end from his father-in-law, Rabbi Yehuda Shmuel Primo, the “Imrei Shefer” on the Torah. First edition. Separate title page for Imrei Shefer. [2], 89, 2-103, 35 leaves. The two works are housed by the National Library in the rare books section. High-quality printing with lots of space on the page, high-quality paper, stains, partially brown paper, tears at the edges mostly not affecting text, a few worming holes, overall good condition.


The title page has Mizrahi signatures, one of which is from the Rishon LeZion Rabbi Meyuchas Becher Shmuel (see below), and his son the Rishon LeZion Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Meyuchas, author of the Shaar HaMayim (see below). The body of the work has a number of notes signed “the young Eliyahu Chayun”. Additional notes.


Rabbi (Refael) Meyuchas Becher Shmuel (1695? – 1771) was the son a rabbi and was sent in 1723 by the Rishon LeZion Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak to Istanbul to work with the central authorities to get the tyrannical governor Yosef Pacha (Pasha) removed. He led the Beit Yaakov beit midrash and was Av Beit Din of Jerusalem in the beit din served also by Rabbi Yitzhak Zerachya Azoulay and his son the Chida. After the dead of Rabbi Yisrael Yaakov Algasi he was chosen as Rishon LeZion. He wrote: Minchat Bikkurim (a shita on the Talmud); Pri HaAdama (on the Rambam and more). The Chida mentions him a few times in his piskei din and eulogized him in Chevron. See Arzei HaLevanon 1437.


His son and successor Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Meyuchas (1738-1805) authored Birkot Mayim on the Shulchan Aruch; Shaar HaMayim on halachot of Yoreh De’ah; and additional works such as Mayim Rishonim (before he was 18 years old). It is said that his father’s will ordered him to succeed him as Rishon LeZion, but because he was son-in-law to the gaon Maharit Algasi he deferred to him out of respect, but after his father-in-law passed he succeeded as Ra’avad and Rishon LeZion. He was friends with the Chida and printed his books in parallel. Thanks to him, Jews were given free permission to pray at the Kotel. He worked tirelessly on behalf of his Jewish brethren with the authorities. See Arzei HaLevanon 1679.


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