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Sefer Rabiyah was written by Rabbi Elyaḳim ben Yehudah ha-Milzahgi (in Hebrew רבי אליקים בן יהודה המילזאהגי; acronym is 'ראביה'). Sefer Rabiyah discusses the writings of Leopold Zunz and Solomon Judah Leob…

Sefer Ot Emet is a comprehensive work on the laws of reading in a Sefer Torah, related blessings, and customs by R. Yehudah ben Manoah ben Ya'akov Said.

R. Said is considered among the great rabbis of his generation. He was born in Dobnitza and…

Nagid u-metsaṿeh (first published in Amsterdam 1712) is an anthology of customs in the tradition of Isaac Luria. It was written by Jacob ben Ḥayyim Ẓemaḥ, a Portuguese cabalist and physician. Ẓemaḥ receivedmedical training in Portugal as…

Sefer Lev David was written by Hayyim Yosef David Azulai ben Isaac Zerachia (in Hebrew: חיים יוסף דוד אזולאי), commonly known as the Hida (by the acronym of his name, חיד"א). Born and educated in Jerusalem, Azulai was a…

Sefer ha-Hayyim ("the Book of Life") is a book of Jewish ethics. It was written by Hayyim ben Bezalel (Poland, c. 1520-1588). Hayyim ben Bezalel studied with Shalom Shachna and Solomon Luria (the Maharshal). He succeeded his uncle, Jacob ben Chaim,…

Sefer ʻOlat Hodesh ha-Shelishi is part three of Eleaar ben David Fleckeles's sermons, which bear the collective title 'Olat ḥodesh. Fleckeles wote 'Olat Hodesh in four parts, containing sermons, a criticism of Mendelssohn's translation of the…

Sefer Divre Torah is a book of Jewish ethics that includes commentaries from Mosheh ben Hayim mi-Koznitser (-1874), Samuel Shmelke Horowitz (1726-1778), Jacob Isaac ha-Hozeh mi-Lublin (1745-1815), Abraham Joshua Heschel of Apta (-1825), Yerahmi'el…

Sefer Amarot Tehorot ("pure sayings") was the first Hassidic commentary on Sefer Tehilim. It was written by R. Eliezer ben Jacob Ha-Levi (Horovitz) of Tarnogrod, a rabbi and Chasidic author. According to one of his sayings, even the greatest saint…

Sefer Afiḳe Yehudah is a collection of Jewish sermons compiled by Yehuda Leyb ha-Levi Edel.


The front and back fly-leaves have various signatures and inscriptions in Hebrew ("This book belongs to the great Rabbi ... Shelomoh ..."; "Belongs to…

Sefer Keri'e mo'ed is a compilation of cabalistic readings for the holy days. It was written by Judah ben Joseph Perez, a rabbi at Venice and Amsterdam in the first half of the eighteenth century. This copy is signed by M. Gaster (whose signature is…