Midrash Talpioth [kabbalistic and midrashic homilies]. Arranged alphabetically according to subject

Estimate: $250–$300
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

ELIJAH BEN ABRAHAM SOLOMON HAKOHEN.

printer

Chanania Lipa & Joshua Heschel Shapira

Place

Zhitomir

Publication

1860

Description

Title within decorative floral border

references

Vinograd, Zhitomir 255

summary

The author was an early adherent of Sabbatianism. Due to the reverence Chassidim, and others felt for him, his writings were sanitized, purged of any offending passages. See G. Scholem, Elijah ha-Kohen ha-Ittamari and Sabbatanism in: Researches in Sabbatianism, (1991) pp. 451-70; and B. Naor, Post Sabbatian Sabbatianism (1999) pp.31-6

ff.164. Lightly browned, marginal worming on a few leaves. Modern blind-tooled brown morocco. 4to

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