Auction 19 · Lot 100

The SHeLa”H Hakodosh). Kitzur Shnei Luchoth Habrith. [Abridged version of Isaiah Horowitz’s treatise]. Prepared by JEHIEL MECHEL EPSTEIN

Estimate: $700–$900
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(HOROWITZ, ISAIAH BEN ABRAHAM HALEVI

printer

Meshulom Zalman ben Aaron

Place

Sulzbach

Publication

1723

Description

Title within typographical border

references

Vinograd, Sulzbuch 104

summary

Part code and part Kabbalistic treatise, the Shnei Luchoth Habrith exerted great influence upon the life of the Jews of Eastern Europe and, more than any other book, helped to introduce the Kabbalah into daily religious life. “Horowitz introduced many customs in the ritual and in the observance of other laws which have no basis otherwise except in the Kabbalah, and because of his authority they were accepted by a great part of Jewry.” M. Waxman, Vol. II pp. 420-1. Jehiel Mechel Epstien prepared the first kabbalistic prayer book printed in Jessnitz 1720

ff. 134. Stained, marginal repairs to first and last leaf, thumbed due to use, manuscript inscriptions on front and rear free end papers. Contemporary roan-backed marbled boards, rubbed, lacking portion of spine. Sm. 4to

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