Auction 13 · Lot 308

Sha’ar Gan Eden [kabbalah]

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: $800

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author

LIPSCHITZ, JACOB KOPPEL.

printer

Abraham ben Isaac Izak-Elijah ben Jacob

Place

Koretz

Publication

1803

Description

FIRST EDITION. Printer’s device on title, opening words within elaborate decorative border. Spherical diagram on f.34. Printed on blue tinted paper.

references

Vinograd, Koretz 99; Tauber, Mechkarim Bibliographiyim, Defusei Koretz no. 66, pp.40-41

summary

The title-page declares the saintly Baal Shem Tov embraced the manuscript of this work after scrutinizing just a few pages. Indeed the work is replete with important approbations, including Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev and R. E.Z. Margolioth. Nevertheless, it is manifest the Kabbalah contained herein is of a Sabbathian nature with erotic overtones not found elsewhere. The author no doubt was a closet Sabbathian suggests I. Tishby - (see his Paths of Faith and Heresy [Hebrew] pp.204-26; and B. Naor, Post-Sabbatian Sabbatianism (1999) p.63)

ff. (2), 84. Light stains in places, neat marginal repairs to first and last two leaves, trace marginal worming on a few leaves neatly repaired. Recent morocco-backed boards. Folio

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