HaNephesh HaChachamah [Kabbalistic discourses on the fate awaiting the soul after death and the mystical significance of the precepts]. Also includes commentaries by R. Moses de Leon and R. Joseph Gikatilla to the Passover Hagadah.
AUCTION 61 |
Wednesday, March 12th,
2014 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic Art and Ceremonial Objects
Lot 203
MOSES BEN SHEM TOV DE LEON.
HaNephesh HaChachamah [Kabbalistic discourses on the fate awaiting the soul after death and the mystical significance of the precepts]. Also includes commentaries by R. Moses de Leon and R. Joseph Gikatilla to the Passover Hagadah.
Basle: Konrad Waldkirch 1608
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $1,000
Moses de Leon of Guadalajara (c. 1240-1305) was one of the greatest Spanish kabbalists of his day, indeed scholars have attributed to him - rather than to Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, the putative author - the composition of the Zohar. Painstaking comparisons have been made of de Leon’s other works, such as our HaNephesh HaChachamah, to ascertain whether there is any overlap with the Zohar in terms of style, language and terminology, as well as to determine whether the two kabbalistic systems are divergent or not. See G. Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1967) pp. 159-204; see also EJ, Vol. XII, cols. 425-6