Shomer Emunim [Kabbalah]. With appendix "Mevo Pethachim" [lexicon of Lurianic Kabbalistic terms]

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

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author

ERGAS, JOSEPH

printer

n.p.

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1736

Description

FIRST EDITION. Additional engraved title incorporating vignettes of Moses with the Tablets and Joseph recounting his dreams to his brothers. Second part with divisional title within typographic border. Wide margins

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1458

summary

A dialogue between two interlocutors "She'altiel" (litrerally - "I questioned God") and Yehoyada (literally - "knows God") concerning the Kabbalistic tradition. Nowadays, the book is referred to as "Shomer Emunim ha-Kadmon" (the early Shomer Emunim) to differentiate it from the twentieth-century "Shomer Emunim" of R. Arehle Roth of Satmar-Jerusalem

ff. (2), 80 (i.e. 79). Ex-library. Intermittent stains. Blind-tooled calf, rebacked. 4to

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