Shepha Tal [Kabbalah, a commentary to Igereth HaTe’amim].

AUCTION 79 | Thursday, November 15th, 2018 at 1:00 PM

The Valmadonna Trust Library: Further Selections from the Historic Collection. * Hebrew Printing in America. * Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 56

HOROWITZ, SHABTHAI SHEFTEL.

Shepha Tal [Kabbalah, a commentary to Igereth HaTe’amim].

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Title within textual border. Letters of title historiated. Several dramatic mystical text illustrations. Important approbations. ff. 10, 94. Lightly foxed, previous owner’s marks, stamp removed from title. Bound in Valmadonna-custom chestnut calf, blind-tooled with gilt florets at corners. Folio. Vinograd, Hanau 13.

Hanau: Hans Jacob Hanau 1612

Est: $2,000 - $2,500

An important work that seeks to present a systematic reconciliation of Luriainic and Cordoverian Kabbalah. The text concerns itself with themes relating to the concept of Unity - that of God, the Jewish soul, the Jewish People, the Land of Israel and the deleterious ontological effect of Exile. See M. J. Heller, The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book, Vol. I, pp. 294-5. The Author (1565-1619) a physician who was born in Prague, was a nephew of R. Isaiah Horowitz (The Shela’h HaKodosh).