By Rabbi Yosef Ben-Naim. Important biographical and bibliographical book of the rabbis of North Africa and their works. With approbations from rabbis of Morocco.
Rabbi Yosef Ben-Naim [1882-1961] was a Talmudic scholar and halachic responder, he is known thanks to his extensive library which contained thousands of manuscripts and rare books. He was an expert in the Torah and customs of Moroccan rabbis. His fondness of the knowledge of the history of the sages can been seen in his introduction to the book, where he wrote: “How my spirit desired to know the memory of the first ones, who have ceased to be among the living, to listen to their qualities, to know their essence, where they are, and when I hear a speaker expressing and preaching their sayings to his listeners, researcher of the ancient, my heart melts and becomes water, my soul desires to hear the preaching of his words, luminaries and events of the past and what has elapsed since then, and the history of the early generations, fathers and sons, sages of the West, who were covered in fog, hiding under veiled cloud, with a curtain separating between us, and we don’t know their time or place, and myself, I would have avoided approaching such a narrow bridge as this, to enter an endless forest.”
[7] 126, [4] 23 leaves. 33 cm.
Fine condition.Old binding. Leather spine. The title page is partially restored with damage to text.