Auction 101 Part 2 Chassidut and Kabbalah | Jerusalem Printings | Letters and Manuscripts | Objects
Sefer HaTakanot – Jerusalem, 1883 – Dozens of Glosses by Rabbi Chaim Sethon, Rabbi of Safed, Author of Eretz Chaim
Opening: $300
Sold for: $1,125
Including buyer's premium
HaTakanot VeHaskamot UMinhagim, ordinances, conventions and customs of Jerusalem. Jerusalem: Yoel Moshe Salomon, 1883. Second, expanded edition of Sefer HaTakanot by R. Avraham Chaim Gagin, printed in Jerusalem, 1842.
Copy of R. Chaim Sethon, Rabbi of Safed, author of Eretz Chaim on customs of Eretz Israel. On title page, stamp: "Chaim son of R. Menashe Sethon – of Safed".
On leaves of the book, over forty glosses of varying length handwritten (in semi-cursive script) by R. Chaim Sethon, mainly on customs. Many of the glosses appear in his abovementioned book (e.g. his gloss on p. 50b appears in Eretz Chaim p. 33b), with or without variation, while others do not (e.g. his gloss on leaf 69 does not appear in Eretz Chaim).
R. Chaim Sethon, Rabbi of Safed (1871-1916), born in Safed to R. Menashe Matlub Sethon (d. 1876), orphaned at a young age and raised among the Ashkenazi and Sephardi Torah scholars of Safed, later serving as Rabbi of the city's Sephardic community.
[2], 4, 69, [1], 81-92 leaves. 16.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Wear and tears, including open tears, affecting text. Stamp of the Refael Silberman library. New leather binding.
Sh. Halevy, No. 439.