Sepher Oz Le’elo-him [Kabbalah- commentary to “Meheimmantua de’Chola” attributed to Shabbatai Tzvi]

As a result of the controversies concerning this work, Hayon was placed under excommunication by most of the European Rabbinate. See: E. Carlebach, The Pursuit of Heresy (1990) pp.99-104; M. Carmilly-Weinberger, pp. 62-7. THE NECHEMIAH HAYUN COPY - WITH THE AUTHOR'S ANNOTATIONS, CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. Contains important marginalia and corrections plus the insertion of two lengthy omissions (which could not be published due to the censor) all in Hayun's hand. Page 71a contains a blank paragraph in all known copies. The present copy contains the missing paragraph written in Hayun's hand stating that his references in many places to a of trinity in the aspects of God has no connection to Christianity. He cites the differences between Christianity and Islam calling them both"Maaseh Taatuim" full of deception and delusion. There are also notes in another neat though unfortunately anonymous hand containing critical comments pertaining to passages concerning the"telath kishrei de-mehemnutha" stating that Hayun misinterpreted the Zoharic passages involved (see pp. 87b and 86a). The lengthy manuscript notes in this work have been compared to Hayun's handwritten notes to R. David Nieto's Esh Dat published by Yisrael Herling in Kiryat Sefer Vol. 15, (1938) pp. 130-135. Herling who was one of G. Scholem's foremost disciples and the author of a lengthy monograph on Hayun's Kabbalistic system and theories states categorically that after extensive investigation “I find that these notes are in the hand of Hayun” (p. 130). It is interesting to note that R. Tzvi Hirsch Berlin owned a manuscript copy of Hayun's Sefer. Ta' tsumot on the Zohar (Neubauer no. 62) sold at Christie's Important Hebrew Manuscripts … from the library of the London Beth Din, 23rd June,1999, Lot 45.