Midrash Talpioth [kabbalistic and midrashic homilies]. Arranged alphabetically according to subject

AUCTION 9 | Tuesday, March 28th, 2000 at 1:00

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ELIJAH BEN ABRAHAM SOLOMON HAKOHEN.

Midrash Talpioth [kabbalistic and midrashic homilies]. Arranged alphabetically according to subject

Title within decorative floral border ff.164. Lightly browned, marginal worming on a few leaves. Modern blind-tooled brown morocco. 4to Vinograd, Zhitomir 255

Zhitomir: Chanania Lipa & Joshua Heschel Shapira 1860

Est: $250 - $300

The author was an early adherent of Sabbatianism. Due to the reverence Chassidim, and others felt for him, his writings were sanitized, purged of any offending passages. See G. Scholem, Elijah ha-Kohen ha-Ittamari and Sabbatanism in: Researches in Sabbatianism, (1991) pp. 451-70; and B. Naor, Post Sabbatian Sabbatianism (1999) pp.31-6