Collection of texts copied by Avraham Ben-Harosh, 1929

Place: Boudenib. Poems and elegies, biblical commentary, and discussions of Jewish law, particularly related to laws of kosher slaughtering. Copied in Boudenib, Tafilalt by Avraham Ben-Harosh. A colophon, page 192a, contains the signature of Avraham Ben-Harosh, as well as the letters indicating the Hebrew year 5630. According to his son Moshe Bar-Asher, this book was most likely copied before the month of Kislev when his father received his semikhah (rabbinic ordination), hence the date 1929 for this manuscript. Among the important contents of this manuscript are: an authentic version of the laws of kosher slaughtering by Refael Berdugo (pages 142-192); a short text concerning laws of kosher slaughtering with interpretations based on numeric values of letters (page 193b); a long poem summarizing laws of kosher slaughtering by an author using the pseudonym "Shemaʻ Shelomoh" (pages 194-203); the lamentation, "El mekudash," one version in Hebrew and a different version written in Arabic in Hebrew letters by Maseod ben Jacob Abihatzera (1834 or 1835-1908), the father of the Baba Sali, Yisrael Abiḥatsira; original lamentations of Yahya Dahan composed after the governor of Tafilalt executed his cousin, the chief rabbi David Abiḥatsira in 1919 (pages 111a-122a); at least ten other texts in Judeo-Arabic recounting the stories of biblical figures such as Job, Moses, and Jospeh; the tale of Sulika, a women killed when she refused to marry an Arab nobleman; and the haftarah of Tisha B'Av. Manuscript in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and Arabic in Hebrew letters.