Gevul Benyamin [sermons]
AUCTION 12 |
Tuesday, March 13th,
2001 at 1:00
Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din
Lot 126
HA’KOHEN, BENJAMIN BEN ELIEZER VITALE OF REGGIO.
Gevul Benyamin [sermons]
Amsterdam: Solomon Proops 1727
Est: $500 - $700
PRICE REALIZED $600
The author was considered one of the major exponents of Lurianic Kabbalah in Italy. A believer in Shabbathai Tzvi - even after the latters apostasy, R. Benjamin was for decades one of Italy’s leading underground Sabbathians, a proponent of “Chassidic” Sabbathianism seeking to combine traditional Judaism with the belief in the messianic character of Shabbathai Tzvi. For a fuller examination of R. Benjamin’s involvment in the Sabbatian movement, see A. Freimann (ed.) Inyanei Shabbetai Zevi (1912) pp. 93-108.