Ma’avar Yabok [prayers for the sick and dead]

AUCTION 63 | Thursday, November 13th, 2014 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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AARON BERACHIAH BEN MOSES OF MODENA.

Ma’avar Yabok [prayers for the sick and dead]

<<FIRST EDITION.>> Few marginal notations. ff. 40, pp. 41-55, ff. 57-84; 146, 149-162, 155-172. Stained in places, few paper repairs to corners with minimal loss. Later boards, covers loose, worn. 4to. Vinograd, Mantua 220; Mehlman 523.

Mantua: Judah Samuel 1626

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $850

Includes laws of visiting the sick and correct modes of behavior toward the deceased and toward mourners. The author (d. 1639), was a follower of the Lurianic Kabbalah as transmitted to Italian scholars by the mysterious figure of R. Israel Sarug. R. Chaim Joseph David Azulai attests that he saw several Kabbalistic manuscripts of R. Aaron Berechiah in the home of his descendants, members of the Sanguinetti family of Modena. Azulai goes on to say he heard the author was visited regularly by a Maggid, or celestial guide. See Azulai, Shem HaGedolim I, A-121; EJ, Vol. II, col. 18; Vol. XIV, col. 890.