Shomer Emunim [Kabbalah]. With appendix "Mevo Pethachim" [lexicon of Lurianic Kabbalistic terms]

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Lot 79

ERGAS, JOSEPH

Shomer Emunim [Kabbalah]. With appendix "Mevo Pethachim" [lexicon of Lurianic Kabbalistic terms]

FIRST EDITION. Additional engraved title incorporating vignettes of Moses with the Tablets and Joseph recounting his dreams to his brothers. Second part with divisional title within typographic border. The Mayer Sulzberger copy. ff. (2), 80 (i.e. 79). Ex-library, browned. Later gilt-tooled vellum. 4to Vinograd, Amsterdam 1458

Amsterdam: n.p. 1736

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $400

A dialogue concerning the Kabbalistic tradition between two interlocutors "She'altiel" (literally - "I questioned God") and Yehoyada (literally - "knows God"). In recent decades the work is referred to as "Shomer Emunim HaKadmon" (the early Shomer Emunim) to differentiate it from the 20th-century "Shomer Emunim" of R. Arehle Roth of Satmar-Jerusalem.