Menorath Zahav Kulah [excerpted from De Vidas, Elijah. Reshith Chochmah: ethics]

ELANKAWA, ISRAEL

Isaac ben Aaron Prosstitz

Cracow

(1593-94)

Title within wreathed architectural columns. On final page, printer's mark (Yaari, 42)

Vinograd, Cracow 158; Mehlman 1002

In the same year of 1593, Isaac Prosstitz published in Prague the third edition of Elijah de Vidas' classic of kabbalistic ethics, Reshith Chochmah which also included five chapters from the earlier work of ethics, Menorath HaMa'or. In the present collection, Isaac Prosstitz printed separately the chapters from Menorath HaMa'or, calling it Menorath Zahav Kulah and utilized the pagination from the concurrent Reshith Chochmah. Thus our work, oddly enough, commences on f. 365 and ends on f. 418. See M. Pachter, The Book 'Reshith Hokhmah' by R. Eliyahu De-Vidas and Its Epitomes, Kiryath Sefer, Vol. XLVII (1971-1972), p. 693; JE, Vol. V, p. 132