(Traditionally Attributed to). Tikunei Hazohar

Estimate

$300–$500

Hammer price

$250

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author

SHIMON B”R YOCHAI

printer

Jonah ben Jacob Aschkenazi

Place

Constantinople

Publication

1740

references

Vinograd Const. 512; Yaari Const. 386

summary

A classical Kabbalistic text, Tikunei 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 approbations here by the Rabbis of Constantinople state that the text in this edition is greatly improved, based upon a manuscript edited by R. Chaim Vital and given to R. Chaim Alfandari in Egypt. The present edition is further enhanced by the addition of new notes by Ashkenazic kabbalist R. Yaakov Vilna and his son R. Chaim Yerucham Vilna who served as the editor of the present edition. On R. Chaim Yerucham Vilna, see B. Naor, Post-Sabbatian Sabbatianism (1999) pp. 65.

ff. 4, 160. Ex-library, some staining, trace of marginal worming on some leaves. Contemporary calf, rubbed and chipped. 4to

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