Sha’ar Gan Eden [kabbalah]

LIPSCHITZ, JACOB KOPPEL.

Abraham ben Isaac Izak-Elijah ben Jacob

Koretz

1803

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

Viongrad, Koretz 99; Tauber, Mechkarim Bibliographiyim, Defusei Koretz pp.40-1, no. 66,

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)