(Traditionally Attributed to). Sepher Shivim Tikunei Hazohar [Kabbalah]. With commentary “Chemdath Tzvi” by Tzvi Hirsch ben Jerachmiel Chotsch of Cracow

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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SHIMON B”R YOCHAI

(Traditionally Attributed to). Sepher Shivim Tikunei Hazohar [Kabbalah]. With commentary “Chemdath Tzvi” by Tzvi Hirsch ben Jerachmiel Chotsch of Cracow

FIRST EDITION with commentary. Striking title within historiated woodcut architectural border framed by eight Biblical vignettes depicting Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; Moses and Aaron; David and Solomon and Elijah the Prophet (Habermann, Sha’arei Sepharim pl. 41) ff. 8, 164. ff. 63-64 mispaginated, though all complete. Lightly browned. Recent boards. Folio Vinograd, Amsterdam 804; Fuks, Amsterdam 589

Amsterdam: Moses Mendes Countinho 1706

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $500

Chotsh was a preacher in Cracow, where it is speculated, he fell under the influence of the Sabbatian prophet Heschel Zoref during the latter's sojourn in that city. Noted scholars of different stripes, from the Orthodox Rabbi Reuben Margalioth to the heterodox Prof. Gershom Scholem have detected hints of Chotsh's reverence for the pseudo-Messiah Shabbetai Zevi in this otherwise unreproachable commentary to Tikkunei Zohar. See B. Naor, Post-Sabbatian Sabbatianism (1999), pp. 79-82