Zivchei Tzedek by Rabbi Abdallah Somech - Two Parts - First Edition - Baghdad, 1899 - Fine Copies

Zivchei Tzedek by Rabbi Abdallah Somech - Two Parts - First Edition - Baghdad, 1899 - Fine Copies
Zivchei Tzedek, laws of Shechita (ritual slaughter) and responsa on various topics, two parts, by R. Abdallah Somech. Baghdad, [1899]. First edition.
Two parts in two volumes.
R. Abdallah Somech (1813-1889), leading Iraqi Torah scholar and rabbi, teacher of the Ben Ish Chai and other leading Baghdadi Torah scholars. Following his marriage, he first earned his living as a merchant, but when he realized that Torah education was waning, he began devoting himself to disseminating Torah. He abandoned commerce, and assembled around him a group of students, whom he taught free of charge. Consequently, the Baghdadi philanthropist Yechezkel Reuven built for him a Beit Midrash, "Midrash Abu Menashi" (later renamed Beit Zilcha). R. Abdallah Somech led this Beit Midrash until his passing. Many leading Torah scholars of the area were his disciples, as R. Shlomo Bechor Hussein (publisher of this book) wrote: "He restored Torah to its original splendor, the glory of Torah to the Babylonian yeshiva, after it had been lost for several hundred years, by establishing a large, spacious Beit Midrash where he edified numerous disciples, and disseminated Torah to the Jewish people, and almost all the Torah scholars, rabbis and poskim in Iraq, Persia, and India drew from his wellsprings" (Surasky, Orot MiMizrach, 1974, p. 71). R. Abdallah was considered the supreme halachic authority, and halachic queries were addressed to him from throughout Iraq, Persia and India. Some of his responsa were published at the end of vol. II of this book. (For more information, see: A. ben Yaakov, Toldot HaRav Abdallah Somech, Jerusalem, 1949; Brief biography at the beginning of Zivchei Tzedek, Ahavat Shalom edition, Jerusalem 2003).
Part I: [8], 448 pages. Part II: 335; 132 pages. Approx. 25 cm. Good condition. Stains. Worming in several places. Original bindings, with marbled paper and leather spines, with damage.