Sha’ar Gan Eden [kabbalah]

AUCTION 13 | Tuesday, June 26th, 2001 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts Together With Fine Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 308

LIPSCHITZ, JACOB KOPPEL.

Sha’ar Gan Eden [kabbalah]

FIRST EDITION. Printer’s device on title, opening words within elaborate decorative border. Spherical diagram on f.34. Printed on blue tinted paper. ff. (2), 84. Light stains in places, neat marginal repairs to first and last two leaves, trace marginal worming on a few leaves neatly repaired. Recent morocco-backed boards. Folio Vinograd, Koretz 99; Tauber, Mechkarim Bibliographiyim, Defusei Koretz no. 66, pp.40-41

Koretz: Abraham ben Isaac Izak-Elijah ben Jacob 1803

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $800

The title-page declares the saintly Baal Shem Tov embraced the manuscript of this work after scrutinizing just a few pages. Indeed the work is replete with important approbations, including Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev and R. E.Z. Margolioth. Nevertheless, it is manifest the Kabbalah contained herein is of a Sabbathian nature with erotic overtones not found elsewhere. The author no doubt was a closet Sabbathian suggests I. Tishby - (see his Paths of Faith and Heresy [Hebrew] pp.204-26; and B. Naor, Post-Sabbatian Sabbatianism (1999) p.63)