(RaMCHa”L). Mesilath Yesharim [ethics]

AUCTION 23 | Tuesday, March 30th, 2004 at 1:00
Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts from The Rare Book Room of the Jews College Library, London The Third Portion

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Lot 171
LUZZATTO, MOSES CHAIM

(RaMCHa”L). Mesilath Yesharim [ethics]

Title within a typographical border. Tailpieces ff. 35, 39-49. Lightly browned. Modern boards. Sm. 8vo Vinograd, Mantua, 516

Mantua: Eliezer Solomon d’Italia 1781

Est: $150 - $200
PRICE REALIZED $250
It is asserted by the noted scholar Joseph Avivi, that despite its deceptively exoteric appearance, in reality Mesilath Yesharim is the quintessence of Luzzatto’s kabbalistic teaching. See Joseph Avivi, Zohar RaMCHaL (Jerusalem, 1997), pp. 208-33