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Manuscript – Sefer Lekach Tov by Rabbi Avraham Yagel. Florence, 1701

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Manuscript – Sefer Lekach Tov, Including the Foundations of the Torah and Moral Education for Youth, by Rabbi Avraham Yagel from the Gallico Family – Written at the Home of the Esteemed Bachur, Honorable R’ David Levi, Florence, 1701 (Tav-Samech-Bet). Hebrew.

This manuscript discusses the roots of the Torah and Musar, structured according to thematic keys: eternity (netzach), love of humanity, the Thirteen Principles of Faith, and the general rules of mitzvot bein adam laMakom (between man and G-d) and bein adam lechavero (between man and fellow man), among others.

The author, Rabbi Avraham ben Chananiah Yagel – [1553–1624], a Jewish-Italian physician, philosopher, and Kabbalist, closely associated with royal courts. He is best known for his work Gei Chazon, which he wrote during approximately a year of imprisonment in Mantua (following a warrant issued against him due to a conflict with the Almageti family).

[39] written pages. Bound in a new cardboard binding. Condition: very good.

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208. Manuscript – Sefer Lekach Tov by Rabbi Avraham Yagel. Florence, 1701