Sepher Yaaroth Hadebash [Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew]. Part I (All printed). Edited by Ezekiel Jacob Rachamim. With Arabic and English renderings

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Sepher Yaaroth Hadebash [Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew]. Part I (All printed). Edited by Ezekiel Jacob Rachamim. With Arabic and English renderings

FIRST EDITION. With Hebrew and English title pages. With interesting paper over-slips placed by the author in the approbations ff. (32), pp.92, 78, 6. Lightly browned, paper repair to title, with loss of a few words in the Arabic introduction. Contemporary boards. Sm. folio Yaari, Bombay 64

Bombay: Anglo-Jewish Vernacular Press by Aaron Jacob “(Opposite Musjid Bunder Railway Staition.)” 1890

Est: $300 - $500

The final six pages contain a vocabulary of the Zohar with a translation into Engilsh and Arabic. The author states in the English introduction that his "humble object ...is [to] aid the student in acquiring a knowledge of...the occult labyrinths of the Zohar.” The unnumbered pages following the approbatons include the text Shemoth HaTzadikim, the names of all the righteous from the Biblical Adam onward, taken from the Sepher HaMidoth, a work published by the Chassidim of Breslov, including hundreds of names of important Chassidic Rabbis, plus a Chassidic prayer to be said after reciting the names