Pri Eitz Chaim [mystical meditations for prayer, Sabbath and Holidays]

Estimate

$800–$1,200

Hammer price

Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

VITAL, CHAIM.

printer

Baruch b. Eliahu

Place

Dubrovno

Publication

1804

references

Vinograd, Dubrovno 6

summary

RARE. The last of only six books that were published in this small town situated along the Dnieper River, today, Belarus. The dissemination of the Kabbalistic teachings of R. Isaac Luria (the AR”I Za”L), followed a convoluted route. The recension recorded by his disciple, R. Chaim Vital has the reputation of being the most authoritative. However, according to Scholem, this Dubrovno edition of Pri Eitz Chaim is based upon the recension of Meir Poppers. See EJ, Vol. XVI cols. 171-76 for Gershom Scholem’s masterful survey of the complex history of Vital’s literary output.

ff. (150, (1). Browned, trace wormed along margins, few leaves frayed. Modern elaborately tooled calf. Tall folio

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