Reishith Chochmah [Kabbalistic ethics].

AUCTION 54 | Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 at 1:00

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Lot 108

DE VIDAS, ELIJAH.

Reishith Chochmah [Kabbalistic ethics].

ff. 2, 326, 22. Previous owners’ inscriptions, browned. Elaborately tooled calf over wooden boards, covers rubbed and detached. 4to. Vinograd, Amsterdam 867.

Amsterdam: Nathaniel Foa 1708

Est: $200 - $250

PRICE REALIZED $150

Elijah de Vidas was a disciple of R. Moses Cordovero, doyen of Safed kabbalists. Despite its mystical overtones, Reishith Chochmah has become a popular classic within ethical literature. It discusses all moral aspects of Jewish life linking the motifs of aggadic and mussar literature with that of Kabbalah, thus broadly disseminating mystical ideas.