Gabbai, Meir ibn. Avodath ha-Kodesh

AUCTION 43 | Thursday, April 02nd, 2009 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 164

(KABBALAH)

Gabbai, Meir ibn. Avodath ha-Kodesh

On title and ff. 1r., 5r. (of second foliation): "Shayach le-ha-kloiz de-K"K Vinitsa" (in Podolia, today Ukraine. See EJ, Vol. XVI, col. 159) ff. 72, 20. Title, first and final leaves laid to size. Waterstained. Later boards, rubbed Folio Vinograd, Slavuta 253

Slavuta: Shmuel Abba ben Moshe Shapira 1827

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $400

"Avodath Hakodesh was perhaps the finest account of kabbalistic speculation before the resurgence of the Kabbalah in Safed” (G. Scholem, Kabbalah, p. 69) Interestingly, the Haskamoth cut across Chassidic-Mithnagdic partisan lines. We have as approbators R. Abraham Abele [Posveller], Chief Justice of Vilna and R. Shlomo Zalman ben Elijah of Neustadt Sugent [Lithuania], great-nephew of the Vilna Gaon - alongside the grandson of the Ba'al Shem Tov, R. Ephraim of Sudylkov (author "Degel Machaneh Ephraim.") As is well known, the printer himself, R. Shmuel Abba ben R. Moshe Shapira, was the grandson of R. Pinchas of Koretz, companion to the Ba'al Shem Tov