Yair Ozen including the Ayin Zocher – principles of the Talmud -and the Midbar Kedmot with aggadic discussions, by Rabbi Chaim Yosef Dovid Azulai (Chida), with glosses in the handwriting of Rabbi Yosef Borgel, author of Zara D’Yosef.
Specifications: [1], 110 leaves. 30 cm. Inclusive title page for both books, and individual title pages for each one.
Unique features: The leaves of the book bear close to 100 glosses from various writers, some identified and some not. The title page bears a curvy, Sephardic signature alongside a Tunisian signature of Rabbi Moshe Chaim Lumbrozo.
Background: Rabbi Yosef Borgel (1791-1874) was a prominent Tunisian rabbi. He was a proficient, sharp Torah scholar with great wealth and a spectacular memory. He authored the Zera D’Yosef and Vayiken Yosef. He signed his full name on his glosses a number of times. A number of these glosses critique the glosses of the Masbi”r.Additional glosses by Masbi”r – kabbalist Rabbi Massoud Revah, a Meknes sage who arrived in Tunis in the sixth century. Malchei Rabanan (85,a) quotes a letter that he received from Rabbi Chaim Dovid Serero that begins with profusive honorofics. Rabbi Dovid HaKohen studied the Kikar La’Aden with glosses that were also signed by the Masbir. He quoted them in his Misgav LaDach, 56b (photocopy included). A number of his poems were printed in Tehila L’Dovid and Kol Yaakov. [Refer to Malchei Rabanan and Malchei Tarshish, p. 238].
Condition: Fine. Aging and usage stains.