Sha’ar Gan Eden [kabbalah]

AUCTION 38 | Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Lot 184

LIPSCHITZ, JACOB KOPPEL.

Sha’ar Gan Eden [kabbalah]

FIRST EDITION. Printer’s device on title, opening words within elaborate decorative border. Spherical diagram on f.34. Three other printers marks on f. 37b. Printed on green tinted paper ff. (2), 84. Light stains in places, scattered marginalia in a Sephardic hand, title repaired, some worming on a few leaves, previous owner's signature, stamp and inscription on title. Later boards. Folio Vinograd, Koretz 99; Tauber, Mechkarim Bibliographiyim, Defusei Koretz no. 66, pp.40-41

Koretz: Abraham ben Isaac Izak-Elijah ben Jacob 1803

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,300

The title-page declares the saintly Baal Shem Tov embraced the manuscript of this work after scrutinizing just a few pages. Indeed the work is replete with important approbations, including Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev and R. E.Z. Margolioth. Nevertheless, it is manifest the Kabbalah contained herein is of a Sabbathian nature with erotic overtones not found elsewhere. The author no doubt was a closet Sabbathian suggests I. Tishby - (see his Paths of Faith and Heresy [Hebrew] pp.204-26; and B. Naor, Post-Sabbatian Sabbatianism (1999) p.63)