A booklet of handwritten prayers. [Italy, 18th/19th century].
Square Italian writing with vowels (Nikud). The pamphlet contains the Priestly Blessing, Hatavat Chalom, prayers for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur and the Three Festivals to be said at the time when the Sefer Torah is removed from the Aron HaKodesh.
Part of the owner's name (for whom the booklet was written) appears on Page [5] "Elchanan Aryeh ben […]".
[7] pages. 17 cm. Good condition. Spotting and moisture marks. Slight wear at the margins. Blue paper binding with damages.

Songs of joy imploring the presence of G-d. Liturgical songs and poems for celebration of bringing in the Torah scroll to the Levant synagogue, in honor of Bar-Mitzvah of Gad Puah, son of wealthy physician Rabbi Yitzchak Puah. Venice, Tevet 1742.
Three liturgical poems: on the Diaspora, the Redemption and the Torah, acrostic at end of second song: Simcha Kalimani. It appears that he wrote the other two poems. On last page: “Names of Singers” (list of choir members).
8 leaves. 13.5 cm. Fair condition. Detached and worn leaves. Small tear with missing piece on first page.

Five Books of the Torah, with Rashi commentary and the Messorah marks. [Unidentified edition, apparently Italian print, 17th century].
Incomplete copy, with missing parts at the beginning and end. The sheets of the Chumashim have dozens of glosses in tiny Italian handwriting, most in reference to Rashi's commentary. The glosses were written by a disciple of the Rabach, who mentions his teacher in one gloss: "…difficult…and My Teacher the Rabach answered…". The Rabach – Rabbi Binyamin HaCohen Vitale (1651-1730), disciple of Rabbi Moshe Zakut, eldest of the rabbis and Mekubalim of Italy whose disciples were considered some of the leading Torah scholars in Italy. His disciple and son-in-law Rabbi Yeshaya Bassan was the Ramchal's teacher and the Ramchal also considered himself as his disciple.
A note was found amongst the Chumash leaves with ownership inscriptions of the Fontanella family: "This Chumash belongs to David Fontanella", "Avraham Fontanella ben Rabbi Zechaya…". Apparently, the writer of the glosses in this Chumash was a member of the Fontanella family, the Mekubal Rabbi Israel Berechiah Fontanella (died 1763), who was a disciple of the Rabach and the leading sage in Reggio after the death of Rabach. In 1744, he edited and printed the book Maftechot HaZohar in Venice. Some of his responsa was printed in his teacher's book of responsa (The Rabach's Responsa, Simanim 33, 38) and in the encyclopedia Pachad Yitzchak by Rabbi Isaac Lampronti.
This volume lacks some leaves and begins with Parshat Noach (Sefer Bereshit) and ends at the end of Parshat Chukat (Bamidbar). 19 cm. Fair condition. Spotting, wear, tears with restoration (in some places the text is damaged). Detached leaves, unbound.

Varied collection of Torah manuscripts in Oriental writing: Halachic responsa, homiletics and Torah novellae, Oriental countries [Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed, Damascus, Egypt, Morocco, Tunis and Italy, 19th/20th centuries].
* Various homiletics in Oriental handwriting [Eretz Israel?]. Among other things, the writer mentions things he heard from "the diligent Torah sage Rabbi Yehuda Sid" [author of Ot Emet, a Bulgarian sage who moved to Safed and died there in 1815]. * Booklet in the handwriting of Rabbi Yehuda Giz (Tunisian sage, died in Jerusalem in 1890), printed in his book Nachal Ye'uda. * Letter with Torah content to "The Angel Raphael" by Rabbi Avraham. [Morocco? 19th century]. * Several Halachic responsa, Menachem Meshiv, in the handwriting of Rabbi Menachem Shem Tov HaCohen Chassid (1848-1911, a Jerusalem sage and one of the founders of Misgav Ladach Hospital). * Handwritten copy of a Halachic responsum by Rabbi Yom Tov Elyakim, from Hebron. * Typewritten copy of a Halachic responsum by Rabbi Ben Zion Koinka. Jerusalem, 1932. * Notebooks of homiletics to a sage in Damascus. * Torah novellae and Halachic responsa, Shtar of testimony. [Egypt, 19th century]. * Manuscript in Ladino and a Shtar Semicha for a Shochet [Italy, 19th century].
Approximately 15 items, composed of dozens of leaves. Varied size and condition, most in good condition.

* Certificate of appointment as emissary (Shadar), for the Gabai of the Hebron community in the city of Fidosia. Hebron, 1893. Signatures and stamps of Hebron Rabbis: Rabbi Eliyahu Saliman Mani (only stamps), Rabbi Yom Tov Pharchi, Rabbi Yitzchak Raphael Ze'evi, Rabbi Nissim Chaim Karyoji, Rabbi Mordechai Chason and Rabbi Rachamim Franco. * Shtar of Chen V'Chesed loan. Port Said (Egypt), 1912. Signed by Rabbi Eliezer Mantzur Sit-hon. * Three letters by sages of the Safed Sephardic community [1933-1934]. Signed by Rabbi Yeshua Falagi, Rabbi Raphael Moshe Entebbe and Rabbi Shimon ben Shabtai. * Shtar for the sale of a courtyard. Jerusalem, 1881. Signed by Sephardic sages in Jerusalem: Rabbi Avraham Bijajo, Rabbi Mordechai Meyuchas and Rabbi Ben-Zion Avraham Koinka. * Ordination for a Shochet. Tire (near Istanbul), 1914. Signed by the Chacham Bashi Rabbi Yishmael HaCohen.
7 items. Varied size and condition.