Gabbai, Meir ibn. Avodath ha-Kodesh

Estimate

$400–$600

Hammer price

$400

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author

(KABBALAH)

printer

Shmuel Abba ben Moshe Shapira

Place

Slavuta

Publication

1827

Description

On title and ff. 1r., 5r. (of second foliation): "Shayach le-ha-kloiz de-K"K Vinitsa" (in Podolia, today Ukraine. See EJ, Vol. XVI, col. 159)

references

Vinograd, Slavuta 253

summary

"Avodath Hakodesh was perhaps the finest account of kabbalistic speculation before the resurgence of the Kabbalah in Safed” (G. Scholem, Kabbalah, p. 69) Interestingly, the Haskamoth cut across Chassidic-Mithnagdic partisan lines. We have as approbators R. Abraham Abele [Posveller], Chief Justice of Vilna and R. Shlomo Zalman ben Elijah of Neustadt Sugent [Lithuania], great-nephew of the Vilna Gaon - alongside the grandson of the Ba'al Shem Tov, R. Ephraim of Sudylkov (author "Degel Machaneh Ephraim.") As is well known, the printer himself, R. Shmuel Abba ben R. Moshe Shapira, was the grandson of R. Pinchas of Koretz, companion to the Ba'al Shem Tov

ff. 72, 20. Title, first and final leaves laid to size. Waterstained. Later boards, rubbed Folio

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