EDREHI, MOSES. Torath Chaim [selected passages from the Zohar to be recited Friday evenings according to the Moroccan custom]

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EDREHI, MOSES. Torath Chaim [selected passages from the Zohar to be recited Friday evenings according to the Moroccan custom]

FIRST EDITION. ff.(3), 52. Trace foxed. Contemporary half-calf over patterned boards, rubbed. 8vo Vinograd, London 135

London: Judah Leib ben Alexander 1792

Est: $400 - $600

In his introduction, the author (c.1774-c.1842), a most colorful character and native of Morocco, recounts that he studied in Sale under Rabbi Judah Anhori. However due to unstable conditions in his native land, Edrehi escaped to London, then removed himself to Amsterdam, before resettling in Jerusalem - after undergoing a most harrowing journey that lasted four years. See EJ, Vol. VI, cols. 380-81.