Minchath Yehudah [on creation, the interpretation of dreams, ghosts, hell, messianic times and repentance]

AUCTION 15 | Tuesday, March 12th, 2002 at 1:00

Fine Hebrew Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art The Property of Various Owners

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Lot 172

FATARYA, JUDAH (YA’ODA) MOSES JOSHUA

Minchath Yehudah [on creation, the interpretation of dreams, ghosts, hell, messianic times and repentance]

FIRST EDITION. Title within typographical border. Photograph of the author with his autograph inscription tipped onto verso of lower wrapper ff. 77, (1). Lightly browned. Recent printed boards with original printed green wrappers bound in. Sm.4to Yaari, Baghdad 279

Baghdad: Elisha Shochat 1933

Est: $1,500 - $1,800

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

Ostensibly written as a commentary to the Book of Genesis, the author includes detailed accounts of his dreams and their interpretations, as well as visitations and exorcisms of Dybbukim that were brought before him. Of particular interest, is a dream in which Nathan of Gaza appears to Fatarya as a raven requesting a tikun (corrective remedy) for his activities on behalf of Shabbatai Tzvi. In another, Fatarya conducts a dialogue with the false messiah himself and arranges a tikkun for his soul