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HAVIV, Moshe ben Shlomo [Moshe ibn Habib].

Sefer Get Pashut.

[The book of simple divorce].

Stock Code
97429
Constantinople, Yonah ben Yaakov Ashkenazi, 1719
£950

Rabi Moshe ibn Habib (1654-1696) was born in Salonika, his father Shlomo ibn Habib being from a prominent Spanish-Jewish family who were expelled from Spain as a result of the Alhambra Decree. At the age of 15 he travelled to Jerusalem to study and was noted for his talent, knowledge of the Torah and his wisdom. He specialised in Jewish marital law and agunot (women who wouldn't be granted a divorce from their husbands) and wrote two books on the subject, the most famous of which is offered here. A Responsa book he wrote was famously lost at sea and only parts of it were published.

Moshe ibn Habib died young, and his books were not published during his lifetime, but were kept as manuscripts until his grandson Rabbi Yaakov Culi edited and published them in Constantinople, as there were no Hebrew printers in the Holy Land at the time.

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Description

First edition; 4to (290 x 205 cm); [2], 143 ll. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, with title in gilt to spine label; some marginal worming and restoration to first and last leaves, occasional browning and staining.

Bibliography

Vinograd (Const.), 403; Yaari 296, p.167.

Stock ID:97429

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