Shomer Emunim [Kabbalah]. With appendix "Mevo Pethachim" [lexicon of Lurianic Kabbalistic terms]

AUCTION 40 | Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 1:00

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

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ERGAS, JOSEPH

Shomer Emunim [Kabbalah]. With appendix "Mevo Pethachim" [lexicon of Lurianic Kabbalistic terms]

FIRST EDITION. Additional engraved title incorporating vignettes of Moses with the Tablets and Joseph recounting his dreams to his brothers. Second part with divisional title within typographic border. Wide margins ff. (2), 80 (i.e. 79). Ex-library. Intermittent stains. Blind-tooled calf, rebacked. 4to Vinograd, Amsterdam 1458

Amsterdam: n.p. 1736

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $800

A dialogue between two interlocutors "She'altiel" (litrerally - "I questioned God") and Yehoyada (literally - "knows God") concerning the Kabbalistic tradition. Nowadays, the book is referred to as "Shomer Emunim ha-Kadmon" (the early Shomer Emunim) to differentiate it from the twentieth-century "Shomer Emunim" of R. Arehle Roth of Satmar-Jerusalem