Peirush al HaTorah al Derach Ha’emeth-Sepher Recanati [commentary to the Pentateuch]

AUCTION 44 | Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 1:00

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Lot 223

RECANATI, MENACHEM.

Peirush al HaTorah al Derach Ha’emeth-Sepher Recanati [commentary to the Pentateuch]

FIRST EDITION. Initial words of Leviticus and Numbers within woodcut borders ff. (156) Complete with blanks. Slight staining in places, previous owner’s signatures on title, scattered marginalia, title repaired, trimmed. Recent calf. 4to Vinograd, Venice 85; Habermann, Bomberg 84; Mehlman 1113; Adams M- 1243

Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1523

Est: $2,000 - $3,000

PRICE REALIZED $2,400

Recanati was the foremost Italian Kabbalist and Halachic authority of the13th century. This commentary to the Pentateuch is the very first of its kind and is permeated with the early Kabbalists new conceptions. It is the first to quote the Zohar and the Bahir, from which a large number of citations together with their interpretations are provided. For a full appreciation of the importance of the author, see M. Idel, Menachem Recanati Hamekubal (1998) pp. 79-80 quoting Prof. Y. Ta-Shema concerning otherwise unknown scholars cited by Recanati