Luria, Isaac. Shulchan Aruch [Halachic ritual infused with Kabbalah]. With: Ibn Ezra, Abraham. Igereth ha-Shabath [The Letter of the Sabbath]

Estimate: $2,000–$2,500
Hammer price: $1,800

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author

(KABBALAH)

printer

Jacob Alvarez Soto, Moses Even-Yakar Brandon and Benjamin de Jong

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1709

Description

FIRST EDITION Igereth ha-Shabbath

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 898

summary

In Igereth ha-Shabath Abraham ibn Ezra recounts a dream in which it was ordained to compose this work to make amends for a prior misunderstood teaching that seems to have led to the unintentional desecration of the Sabbath by a wayward student. (ff. 110v-112r) See EJ, Vol. VIII, cols. 1163-4

ff. (2), 112. Light stains. Half-morocco over marbled boards. 16mo

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