Emek HaMelech.

AUCTION 72 | Thursday, March 16th, 2017 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Holy Land Maps & Fine Art

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NAPHTALI HERTZ BEN JACOB ELCHANAN.

Emek HaMelech.

<<FIRST EDITION>> . Title within woodcut architectural arch. Printer’s device on title along with signature of former owner: Ya’akov Weil of Karlsruhe. ff. 21, 178 (i.e. 180). Lightly browned and dampwrinkled. Modern calf. Folio. Vinograd, Amsterdam 149; Fuks, Amsterdam 222; Mehlman 1092.

Amsterdam: Immanuel Benveniste 1648

Est: $1,500 - $2,000

PRICE REALIZED $1,400

<<A most important and comprehensively systematic works of Kabbalah.>> Utilizing many sources, the author primarily relied on Israel Sarug, one of the major disciples of Isaac Luria (the AR”I). The publication of the work caused some consternation among the disciples of Chaim Vital who questioned its reliability. However, Shem HaGedolim HaChadash (under the title R. Zadok Hakohen of Lublin) dismisses most of these objections (see Sepher Ha’zichronoth (Warsaw, 1929) p. 24). Despite the objections raised, the detail and clarity of the Emek HaMelech exerted profound influence on both R. Shne’or Zalman, the founder of Chabad, as well as the disciples of the Gaon of Vilna.