Yesh Sachar [Halachic Code based upon the Zohar].

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 65

ISSACHAR BAER BEN PETHACHIAH MOSHE OF KREMENETZ.

Yesh Sachar [Halachic Code based upon the Zohar].

<<First Edition.>> Title within typographical border. <<The R. Abraham Joseph Solomon Graziano (Ish Ge’r) copy>> with his signature on title. ff. 79. Browned, signed by censors at end. Bound in Valmadonna-custom blind-tooled maroon morocco, spine in compartments and titled in gilt. Sm. 4to. Vinograd, Prague 170.

Prague: Gershom ben Bezalel Katz 1609

Est: $3,000 - $4,000

Focuses upon the role Kabbalah plays in determining mainstream Halachic practice - a subject that has been debated for centuries. As opposed to philosophy, seen by many as the Zohar’s opposite, Kabbalah is on the one hand esoteric and thus not for the masses, yet intrinsically, it takes Halachic positions based upon mainstream practice which is of course common to all.