The SHeLa”H Hakodosh). Kitzur Shnei Luchoth Habrith. [Abridged version of Isaiah Horowitz’s treatise]. Prepared by JEHIEL MECHEL EPSTEIN

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The SHeLa”H Hakodosh). Kitzur Shnei Luchoth Habrith. [Abridged version of Isaiah Horowitz’s treatise]. Prepared by JEHIEL MECHEL EPSTEIN

Title within typographical border ff. 134. Stained, marginal repairs to first and last leaf, thumbed due to use, manuscript inscriptions on front and rear free end papers. Contemporary roan-backed marbled boards, rubbed, lacking portion of spine. Sm. 4to Vinograd, Sulzbuch 104

Sulzbach: Meshulom Zalman ben Aaron 1723

Est: $700 - $900

Part code and part Kabbalistic treatise, the Shnei Luchoth Habrith exerted great influence upon the life of the Jews of Eastern Europe and, more than any other book, helped to introduce the Kabbalah into daily religious life. “Horowitz introduced many customs in the ritual and in the observance of other laws which have no basis otherwise except in the Kabbalah, and because of his authority they were accepted by a great part of Jewry.” M. Waxman, Vol. II pp. 420-1. Jehiel Mechel Epstien prepared the first kabbalistic prayer book printed in Jessnitz 1720