Sermons on the parshahs in chumashim Bamidbar-Devarim and compilations by the gaon the G-dly Kabbalist … Rabbi Avraham Meyuchas, author of Sdeh HaAretz and Degel Ahavah . He was one of the Chid”a’s teachers.
Scribe’s copy, with many supplements on almost every leaf in the author’s hand. The author’s supplements include completions on the sheets and between the lines as well as corrections. Some of the author’s supplements are in his hand.
The sermons before us include sermons for the parshah in Bamidbar and Devarim, for Shabbat Teshuvah, eulogies and more. Sermons, that as stated, have never been printed. Each sermon opens with a beautiful literary introduction as is his way in his printed sermons. The manuscript before us is identical to his Sdeh HaAretz manuscript without any doubt (it has been compared to photocopies at the beginning of the aforementioned Diglei Ahavah ).
The gaon Rabbi Avraham Meyuchas [c.1700-1768], author of the renowned book Sdeh HaAretz was one of the leading sages and Kabbalists of Jerusalem and a contemporary of lofty geonim and Kabbalists. Already in his childhood he entered the renowned Beit Ya’akov yeshivah and became the primary disciple of the author of Pri HaAretz .
So attests his brother, the Rishon LeTziyon Rabbi Meyuchas son of Rabbi Shmuel, author of Pri HaAdamah in his approbation to Sdeh HaAretz , about him: “A person who has everything, expert in revealed and hidden aspects of Torah … the G-dly Kabbalist, modest as Hillel, G-dly sanctified from the womb, never leaves the tent of Torah … separate from all worldly matters and suffers greatly, yet despite this has not left the study hall for even an hour.”
The author of Etz HaSadeh would write a lot of Torah novellae, and his nephew, the rabbi, author of Brachot Mayim in his approbation to Sdeh HaAretz Part II writes of him: He held the rod of wisdom and wrote many books …” Books printed until now include Sefer Sdeh HaAretz in three parts – responsa and sermons (Salonika 1784-1798) and Diglei Ahavah on the book Etz Chaim by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto in three parts (published by Ahavat Shalom, Jerusalem, 2003).
[316] pp + [26] leaves of indices (The index leaves also contain many supplements in the author’s hand). Dimensions: 23×16 cm.
Moderate condition. Minimal worming perforations. Dampstains with faded writing in the margins. Not bound.