Megaleh Amukoth [252 Kabbalistic explanations to Moses’s prayer in the Biblical portion of “Va’ethchanan.”]

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 267
SHAPIRO, NATHAN NATA.

Megaleh Amukoth [252 Kabbalistic explanations to Moses’s prayer in the Biblical portion of “Va’ethchanan.”]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> ff. (5),166, 24. Foxed, few expert paper repairs in places. Modern calf. 4to. Vinograd, Cracow 401.

Cracow: (Menachem Nachum Meisels) 1637

Est: $12,000 - $18,000
PRICE REALIZED $13,000
<<A fundamental text by the most important Polish Kabbalist of the 17th-century.>> When traditional scholars wish to celebrate the infinite breadth of the Torah, the present text may be cited as a perfect example. The Chid”a cites R. Yechiel Heilperin – author of Seder Ha-Doroth – who studied 1,000 interpretations of the Megaleh Amukoth on the diminutive letter Aleph of the word “Vayikra.” His son, R. Shlomo, writes in his introduction that his father had actually composed 1,000 interpretations of Moses’s prayer in Va’ethchanan