Shomer Emunim [Kabbalah]. With appendix: "Mevo Pethachim" [lexicon of Lurianic Kabbalistic terms].
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Lot 143
ERGAS, YOSEPH.
Shomer Emunim [Kabbalah]. With appendix: "Mevo Pethachim" [lexicon of Lurianic Kabbalistic terms].
Amsterdam: n.p. 1736
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
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A dialogue concerning the Kabbalistic tradition between two interlocutors "She'altiel" (literally - "I questioned God") and Yehoyada (literally - "knows God"). In recent decades the work is oft referred to as "Shomer Emunim HaKadmon" (the early Shomer Emunim) to differentiate it from the 20th-century "Shomer Emunim" of R. Arehle Roth of Satmar-Jerusalem.
Kabbalist R. Joseph Ergas (1685-1730) established a Yeshiva in Pisa and later served as Rabbi of Livorno. In addition to his halachic scholarship, he is renowned for his polemics against Nechemia Hayon and seeking to refute Sabbatian belief. See E. Carlebach, The Pursuit of Heresy (1990) pp. 137-43.