Shomer Emunim [Kabbalah]. With appendix "Mevo Pethachim" [lexicon of Lurianic Kabbalistic terms]

ERGAS, JOSEPH

n.p.

Amsterdam

1736

FIRST EDITION. Additional engraved title incorporating vignettes of Moses with the Tablets and Joseph recounting his dreams to his brothers. Second part with divisional title within typographic border. The Mayer Sulzberger copy.

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1458

A dialogue concerning the Kabbalistic tradition between two interlocutors "She'altiel" (literally - "I questioned God") and Yehoyada (literally - "knows God"). In recent decades the work is referred to as "Shomer Emunim HaKadmon" (the early Shomer Emunim) to differentiate it from the 20th-century "Shomer Emunim" of R. Arehle Roth of Satmar-Jerusalem.