Vital, Chaim. Likutei Torah, Nevi'im u-Kethuvim [Lurianic interpretations of the Bible]

(KABBALAH).

Eastern Europe

1768

Cursive Aschkenazic script. Broad margins. Colophon on f.103

There are variants in this manuscript of Likutei Torah that differ from the standard printed edition. For example, our version begins with a lengthy discourse "Inyan te'omah yetheirah, ve-Kayin ve-Hevel ve-Sheth; Moshe, Tzipporah, Yithro, Mitzri," lacking in the Brandwein edition, Parashath Bereishith. See ibid., pp. 27-28. (It is also missing in the Vilna 1880 edition of Likutei Torah based on a manuscript that once belonged to R. Nathan Adler, which was acquired by R. Shemariah Zuckerman of Moghilev. Ibid., f.16r.) Also, the Brandwein edition lacks an entry for the Book of Esther, whereas our version includes Esther on f.103r. (Esther is also missing in the Vilna edition.) Likutei Torah was first printed in Zolkiew in 1775; thus, our copy predates the first edition by seven years. See G. Scholem, Kabbalah (1974), p. 446