Manuscript, articles and ideas on Midrashim, science and philosophy and various topics. [Russia-Poland, 19th century].
Written by an unidentified author. The manuscript has studies and articles, original ideas and commentaries on Midrashim according to philosophical wisdom, Jewish science and nature with chronicles on Divrei HaYamim and the history of the Jews in Russia, ["A study of the time that the Jews came from the countries in which they were dispersed and settled in Russia…"] until the end of the Crimean War and the Treaty of Paris in 1856, and compilations from various sources.
[134] written pages. 20 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, tears and wear. Worn paper binding.

Large collection of manuscripts, homiletics and piyutim. Oriental countries [Yemen, Morocco, Turkey, Persia etc.].
For a complete list, see Hebrew description.
19 manuscripts, varied size and condition. Some are bound.
Opening price: $3500

Collection of manuscripts. [Morocco and Oriental countries, c. 19th century]. Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic.
•Compilation of various piyutim. (For a complete list, see Hebrew description.)
Four manuscripts, varied size and condition (good-poor). Lacking leaves and other damages.

• Volume of manuscripts composed of various sections: Laws of Shechita in Mugrabi Jewish-Arabic; piyutim; novellae on the Torah; homiletics and eulogies; Midrash and novellae; Sefer HaGoralot. [Morocco, 19th century]. The last sections have signatures of the writer: "Eyus ben Avraham Malka".
• Manuscript, homiletics and piyutim, and various lists. [Tiberias?, c. 1880]. Bound with copy (lacking title page) of Sefer HaPizmonim, Calcutta, 1841.
Sermons about tefillin and other sermons, eulogies and letters. Many lists of accounts of the distribution [in Tiberias] in the 1880s. Detailed journal by the writer of his travels as an emissary to the western cities in the 1880s. List of books and manuscripts that he took with him on his journey and other interesting lists. Apparently, the writer was one of the Tiberias scholars and he mentions his father and grandfather who also were Torah scholars in Tiberias. From the lists, it is apparent that he had contact with the Aleppo and Damascus communities.
2 volumes, varied size and condition. Some of the sections in Volume 1 are damaged.
Opening price: $300

• Handwritten booklet, Azharot for the Laws of Shechita, a didactic halachic poem by Rabbi Masud ben Shabbat, apparently in his handwriting. At the end of the booklet is his stamp "Masud ebn Yitzchak Shabbat from the city of Sus" – Rabbi Masud ben Shabbat was a Torah scholar in Casablanca and in Tardane.
• Manuscript, thoughts and homiletics on the Torah weekly portions and for other occasions [some were compiled from various books], by Rabbi Shlomo Asaraf. Ouled Berhil (Morocco), [c. 1828]. Includes lists of deaths from a later time.
• Manuscript, Chana and her Seven Sons [in Jewish-Arabic]; lamentations for Tisha B'Av and for mourning the dead [some in Jewish-Arabic], [North Africa; Morocco?].
Varied size and condition.