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Auction 12 · Lot 126
Gevul Benyamin [sermons]
- Estimate
- $500–$700
- Hammer price
- $600
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
HA’KOHEN, BENJAMIN BEN ELIEZER VITALE OF REGGIO.
printer
Solomon Proops
Place
Amsterdam
Publication
1727
Description
FIRST EDITION.
references
Vinograd, Amsterdam 1297
summary
The author was considered one of the major exponents of Lurianic Kabbalah in Italy. A believer in Shabbathai Tzvi - even after the latters apostasy, R. Benjamin was for decades one of Italy’s leading underground Sabbathians, a proponent of “Chassidic” Sabbathianism seeking to combine traditional Judaism with the belief in the messianic character of Shabbathai Tzvi. For a fuller examination of R. Benjamin’s involvment in the Sabbatian movement, see A. Freimann (ed.) Inyanei Shabbetai Zevi (1912) pp. 93-108.
ff. (1), 217, 140, (2). Foxed, title rehinged. Recent morocco-backed boards. Folio
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