(Traditionally Attributed to). Tikunei Hazohar

SHIMON B”R YOCHAI

Jonah ben Jacob Aschkenazi of Zalositz

Orta-Koi

1719

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Vinograd Const. 409; Yaari Const. 300

A classical Kabbalistic text, Tikkunei Hazohar was designed to expound 70 novellae, each beginning with a new interpretation of the word Bereishith, conforming to the Seventy Aspects of the Torah. The expositions in the book digress widely and discuss topics not included in the main body of the Zohar - the mysteries of the vowel point and accents and the esoteric wisdom underlying prayer and Halachah. Two widely divergent textual arrangments are found in manuscripts, which are reflected in turn in the original Mantua edition and the present Orta -Koi edition. The approbations here by the Rabbis of Constantinople state that the text in this edition is greatly improved and corrected based upon a manuscript edited by R. Chaim Vital and given to R. Chaim Alfandari in Egypt