Auction 43 · Lot 35

Ma’avar Yabok [prayers for the sick and dead]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

AARON BERACHIAH BEN MOSES OF MODENA.

printer

Aaron ben Yonah (pseudo Proops)

Place

Ostrog [Ostroha] (pseudo Amsterdam)

Publication

1817

Description

Title-page in red and black. With imitation Proops printer 's mark of hands held in priestly blessing. Wide-margined copy. Printed mostly on green tinted paper

references

Vinograd, Ostrog 95 (JNUL copy also incomplete); A.Yaari, Hadefus Ha’ivri Be’Ostraha, Alei Sefer, Vol II, no. 64

summary

With approbations of the Rabbi of Ostrog given to Aaron ben Yonah and R. Yisrael, the son of of the Chassidic Master, Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev. The author (d. 1639), was a follower of the Lurianic Kabbalah as transmitted to Italian scholars by the mystic, R. Israel Sarug. R. Chaim Joseph David Azulai attests he saw several kabbalistic manuscripts of R. Aaron Berechiah in the Modena home of his descendants, members of the Sanguinetti family. Azulai informs further, that apparently the author was visited regularly by a Maggid or celestial guide. See Shem ha-Gedolim I, A-121; EJ, Vol. II, col. 18; Vol. XIV, col. 890

ff. (4), 224 (of 228) lacking ff. 221-24. With inscription and signatures of members of "Chabura Kadisha of Oiber Vishiva" on front fly leaf, title and f. 205, final seven leaves repaired affecting text, some staining, tear on f. 45, scattered marginalia, some leaves worn from use, slight worming. Modern morocco. 4to

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