{"id":1519,"date":"2015-04-21T20:57:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T20:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2015\/04\/21\/sephardic-journeys-now-open-in-the-david-berg-rare\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T16:37:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:37:34","slug":"sephardic-journeys-now-open-in-the-david-berg-rare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2015\/04\/21\/sephardic-journeys-now-open-in-the-david-berg-rare\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1519 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2015\/04\/21\/sephardic-journeys-now-open-in-the-david-berg-rare\/attachment\/1520\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tumblr_nn6cw8lh6g1r3qmd1o1_400-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h2><i>Sephardic Journeys<\/i> now open in The David Berg Rare Book<br \/>\nRoom<\/h2>\n<p>The rare books and artifacts in this exhibit, <i>Sephardic Journeys<\/i>, reflect a rich<br \/>\ntradition of scholarship and culture shaped by migrations, and they invite, in<br \/>\nturn, reflection upon the physical, emotional and spiritual journeys of Jewish<br \/>\nhistory. <\/p>\n<p>Item above:<\/p>\n<p>Sefer Tikkun Sofrim u-Mikra Sofrim (\u05e1\u05e4\u05e8 \u05ea\u05e7\u05d5\u05df \u05e1\u05d5\u05e4\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd \u05d5\u05de\u05e7\u05e8\u05d0 \u05e1\u05d5\u05e4\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd)<br \/>Isaac ben Abba Mari, Ya\u2019a\u1e33ov Avraham Giron<br \/>Nisim Ashkenazi ben Yonah ha-Madpis (Constantinople, 1756)<br \/>Hebrew <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Isaac ben Abba Mari (1122?-93?), a French<br \/>\nSephardi Talmudic prodigy, wrote his first book at age seventeen. <i>Shehitah u-Terefot<\/i>, on the laws of slaughtering<br \/>\nand consuming animals. This work was combined with others\u2014produced over 23<br \/>\nyears\u2014to form his magnum opus, the <i>Ittur<br \/>\nSoferim<\/i>, a near-complete code of Jewish law. Purported to have been<br \/>\nunrivaled in his age in questions of Talmud, whether <i>Yerusalyami<\/i> (Jerusalem) or <i>Bavli<\/i><br \/>\n(Babylonian), Mari was an independent thinker, who unsparingly criticized<br \/>\nrevered and aged authorities. The present volume is composed of <i>Ittur<\/i> excerpts and Rabbi Avraham Giron\u2019s<br \/>\ncommentaries purporting to elucidate and elaborate Mari\u2019s work. <\/p>\n<p><i>Gift<br \/>\nof the Leo Baeck Institute on behalf of the Offen Family<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Sephardic Journeys<\/i><br \/>\nis on view through June 2015 in The David Berg Rare Book Room. <i>Sephardic Journeys<\/i> has been supported by<br \/>\na generous grant from The David Berg Foundation and was created by the Center<br \/>\nfor Jewish History with American Sephardi Federation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sephardic Journeys now open in The David Berg Rare Book Room The rare books and artifacts in this exhibit, Sephardic Journeys, reflect a rich tradition of scholarship and culture shaped by migrations, and they invite, in turn, reflection upon the physical, emotional and spiritual journeys of Jewish history. Item above: Sefer Tikkun Sofrim u-Mikra Sofrim (\u05e1\u05e4\u05e8 \u05ea\u05e7\u05d5\u05df \u05e1\u05d5\u05e4\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd \u05d5\u05de\u05e7\u05e8\u05d0 \u05e1\u05d5\u05e4\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd)Isaac ben Abba Mari, Ya\u2019a\u1e33ov&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[151,257,261,194,371,170,386,288],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-american-sephardi-federation","tag-asf-collections","tag-exhibitions","tag-exhibits","tag-sephardic","tag-sephardic-jews","tag-sephardic-journeys","tag-the-david-berg-foundation","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}