VITAL, CHAIM, Sepher Ha-Techunah, [formulae and calculations to determine the New Moons, Solar and Lunar cycles, Seasons and systems of intercalculation]
AUCTION 33 |
Tuesday, June 20th,
2006 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Including Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Autograph Letters
Lot 12
(ASTRONOMY)
VITAL, CHAIM, Sepher Ha-Techunah, [formulae and calculations to determine the New Moons, Solar and Lunar cycles, Seasons and systems of intercalculation]
Jerusalem: Israel Bak 1866
Est: $400 - $600
PRICE REALIZED $450
With an introduction by the great Kabbalist, R. Chai Raphael Yedidyah Aboulafia, who writes in addition to the Kabbalah that R. Chaim Vital imbibed from Isaac Luria, “he held the keys to other scientific disciplines which are “Rakachoth” (phamaceutics) necessary for understanding the “internal” (i.e. Kabbalistic) portions of the Torah.”