Eiduth BeYa’akov [Kabbalah]

AUCTION 66 | Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 1:00

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Lot 76

TZEMACH, YA’AKOV BEN CHAIM.

Eiduth BeYa’akov [Kabbalah]

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in an exceptionally neat, semi-cursive Sephardic hand on thick paper. ff. 150. Wide margins. Trace wormed. Later calf-backed boards. Sm. folio.

Near East: 18th century

Est: $1,500 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $4,250

A beautifully composed manuscript of two important Kabbalistic treatises, each based upon the writings of R. Chaim Vital and arranged by R. Ya’akov Zemach, entitled: Otzroth Chaim and Adam Yashar, under the general title of Eiduth BeYa’akov. R. Ya’akov Tzemach (c.1580-1667) was the foremost student of R. Shmuel Vital (son of R. Chaim). He was born in Lisbon and moved to Salonika where he returned to live a fully Jewish life. His studies took him to Safed and then Damascus where he studied under R. Shmuel Vital. See G. Scholem, On the Life of the Kabbalist Jacob Zemach and his Literary Activities in: in Kiryat Sepher Vol. 26, (1950) pp. 185-94. For a detailed discussion of this particular text, see Y. Avivi, Kabbalath Ha’Ari (2008) Vol. II, pp. 616-20.