❧ Description
Ḥefetz Hashem — "The Lord's Desire" — Talmudic novellae by Ḥayyim ibn Attar, composed at Salé before his emigration to Livorno (1739). It is his first major printed work, predating the Or ha-Ḥayim by ten years, and already revealing of his hermeneutic approach: the systematic interweaving of peshat, derash and sod (kabbalistic).
Provenance: 1 Composed at Salé, years 1715-1732 2 Editio princeps: Amsterdam, 1732
Codicological note — origin Salé, Atlantic Maghreb, Morocco; script: Maghrebi; editorial status: Partial edition available.
— Source: Mémoires des Manuscrits Juifs du Moyen-Âge Maghrébin (MMJMM / Collectif GMPL), https://mmjmm.org/corpus/catalogue/to-locate-ibn-attar-hefetz-hashem.
