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Petach HaDvir – With a Kuntres by Rabbi Shmuel Vital. Izmir, 1863. First Edition - Petach HaDvir – With a Kuntres by Rabbi Shmuel Vital. Izmir, 1863. First Edition Petach HaDvir on Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim, Part II, authored by Rabbi Chaim Binyamin Pontrimoli of Izmir. Printed in Izmir, 1863. First edition. At the beginning of the book, Kuntres ”Chayim Shanim Yishalem”, containing novellae on the Shulchan Aruch and Levush from the manuscript of the renowned kabbalist, Rabbi Shmuel Vital, son of Rabbi Chaim Vital. Rabbi Chaim Binyamin Pontrimoli, author of Petach HaDvir, was one of the great sages of Turkey and among the outstanding scholars of the rabbis of Izmir in his generation. He served as a dayan in the beit din of Rabbi Chaim Palagi. His work Petach HaDvir is considered a fundamental halachic work in Sephardic jurisprudence. [1], 148 leaves. 30 cm. Thick paper. Good condition. Slight worming.