Chazah Tzion [kabbalistic commentary to the Book of Psalms, with text]
AUCTION 47 |
Thursday, December 10th,
2009 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art
Lot 248
RICCHI, RAPHAEL IMMANUEL CHAI.
Chazah Tzion [kabbalistic commentary to the Book of Psalms, with text]
Livorno: Abraham Ricchi for Abraham Meldola 1742
Est: $600 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $800
The author’s son, Abraham Samuel Ricchi, includes a biography of his father’s life as an appendix to this work. He describes his father’s journey to Italy and his murder on the road between Modena and Bologna, a fact dreamt by Raphael Ricchi in Jerusalem in which he visioned he was a reincarnation of the Tana R. Yehudah Ben Baba who was killed by the Romans and was one of the “Asarah HaRugei Malchuth.”