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Sefer Orot Elim אורות אילים.
Collected ethical teachings drawn from the Talmud, Midrash Rabbah, the Zohar, and other classical sources.
Translated into Arabic (Judeo-Arabic printed in Rashi script) by Shlomo Tuvina.
Part II.
Calcutta, [Press of Shlomo Tuvina], 1896 תרנ"ו.
Printed without a title page, beginning directly with page א.
Orot Elim is the first work of the renowned sage Rabbi Eliezer Papo, later famous as the author of the widely known ethical work Pele Yoetz. In the introduction he notes that he had completed the entire Talmud and that the proceeds from this book helped finance the publication of Pele Yoetz.
The present volume is the Judeo-Arabic translation of Part II, printed in Rashi characters, produced for readers in Arabic-speaking Jewish communities.
A scarce Hebrew-Judeo-Arabic imprint from Calcutta, associated with the Baghdadi Jewish printing tradition and the press of Shlomo Tuvina, one of the leading Hebrew printers serving Jewish communities of India and the Middle East in the nineteenth century.
Rabbi Eliezer Papo
Pele Yoetz
Orot Elim
Judeo-Arabic printing
Calcutta Hebrew printing
Shlomo Tuvina press
Baghdadi Jewish printing
Iraqi Jewish history
Musar literature
19th century Hebrew book
