Sefer Torat Chayim.

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Book of kabbalistic readings and prayers for Friday nights, customarily recited in the Eastern cities of Morocco. Moshe Edrehi (c. 1774-1842) was a Moroccan scholar, Kabbalist and itinerant preacher in North Africa who travelled to London in 1791, where he studied in the Sephardic Beit Midrash Etz Hayyim, preaching there every Sabbath. A child prodigy he had started preaching at the age of 14. He published this work in order to support himself and his family in Morocco, and after its publication left for Amsterdam. There he published two more works - 'Yad Moshe', a collection of sermons, and 'Ma'aseh Nissim', tales of the ten tribes with a Yiddish translation. His final journey, to the Holy Land, took four years and led Edrehi through France, Italy, Malta and Smyrna, where many of his writings were lost in a fire. The 'Tikun' here arranged according to the book 'Chemdat HaYamin'. First edition; 8vo (20 x 12.5 cm); title printed within ornamental border; library stamp to title and on one or two other leaves, occasional foxing, restorations to corners of title and of the last three leaves; later 18th-century-style calf boards with gilt decorations; text in Hebrew. [3], 52 ll. ESTC N475360; Roth, Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica, B12 - 20. Vinograd, London 135.

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