Auction 88 - Part I - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters, Ceremonial Art

Manuscript – Halachic Responsum by Rabbi Gavriel Ashkenazi, with His Handwritten Additions and Signature – Aleppo, 18th Century

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Manuscript, halachic responsum by R. Gavriel Ashkenazi, with his handwritten additions and signature. [Aleppo, ca. 18th century].
Lengthy responsum on the topic of partnerships, written in response to the ruling sent to him by R. Yisrael son of R. Yosef Sasson (a leading Aleppo Torah scholar, author of Knesset Yisrael, Livorno 1856).
Neat scribal script. Marginal and interlinear additions and emendations handwritten by the author R. Gavriel Ashkenazi. With R. Gavriel's signature at the end of the responsum.
R. Gavriel Ashkenazi, Torah scholar and dayan in Aleppo in the second half of the 18th century. Immigrated to Shechem near the end of his life.
This responsum was published with differences in Responsa of R. Gavriel Ashkenazi, without some of the handwritten additions.
[7] leaves. 21 cm. Good condition. Stains. New binding.


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