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AUCTION 11 | Tuesday, November 28th, 2000 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 177

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Sha’arei Rachamim [selected prayers, with mystical meditations]. ff. (7), 144 (of 146), (1). Lacking ff. 2-3. [Vinograd, Salonika 243]. * (HAGADAH). Sha’arei Ratzon. Kabbalistic commentary by Chaim ben Abraham Hakohen of Aleppo. With commentary to other Festivals. ff. 57. [Vinograd, Salonika 244; Yaari 120; Yudlov 193, all with variant collation]. Browned and stained, neat marginal repairs on a few leaves, thumbed, marginalia. Later gilt-tooled deep maroon morocco, gently rubbed. 4to

Salonika: n.p. 1741

Est: $5,000 - $7,000

The first printed edition of the Prayer-Book according to the custom of Isaac Luria (Nusach Ari). Together with the first Kabbalistic Hagadah. Both prepared by the mystic, Chaim ben Abraham Hakohen of Aleppo