Luria, Isaac. Shulchan Aruch [Halachic ritual infused with Kabbalah]. With: Ibn Ezra, Abraham. Igereth ha-Shabbath

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Luria, Isaac. Shulchan Aruch [Halachic ritual infused with Kabbalah]. With: Ibn Ezra, Abraham. Igereth ha-Shabbath

On title, Russian censor's stamp from year 1837. With Haskama by R. Aryeh Leib of Waltchisk ff. (1), 59. Light waterstains, one severe stain on ff.44v.-45r affecting text. Calf-backed boards, rubbed. 12mo Vinograd, Slavuta 9

Slavuta: [Moses Shapira] 1793

Est: $4,000 - $5,000

In Igereth ha-Shabbath, Abraham ibn Ezra recounts a dream in which he received, as it were, a letter from the Sabbath itself. The Sabbath reprimands ibn Ezra for an unlawful interpretation by one of his students, whereby the Sabbath day would only commence Saturday morning rather than the prior Friday sundown. See EJ, Vol. VIII, cols. 1163-4. Chaim Liberman went to great lengths to demonstrate that - with all due apologia to Friedberg and others - the press of R. Moses Shapira (son of R. Pinchas of Koretz, a "talmid-chaver" of R. Israel Ba'al Shem Tov) existed in Slavuta as early as 1792. See Ohel Rache"l, Vol. I (1980) pp. 199-202