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
Lot 97
ERGAS, JOSEPH
Shomer Emunim [Kabbalah]. With appendix "Mevo Pethachim" [lexicon of Lurianic Kabbalistic terms]
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