Reishith Chochmah [Kabbalistic ethics].

Estimate: $200–$250
Hammer price: $150

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author

DE VIDAS, ELIJAH.

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Nathaniel Foa

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1708

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 867.

summary

Elijah de Vidas was a disciple of R. Moses Cordovero, doyen of Safed kabbalists. Despite its mystical overtones, Reishith Chochmah has become a popular classic within ethical literature. It discusses all moral aspects of Jewish life linking the motifs of aggadic and mussar literature with that of Kabbalah, thus broadly disseminating mystical ideas.

ff. 2, 326, 22. Previous owners’ inscriptions, browned. Elaborately tooled calf over wooden boards, covers rubbed and detached. 4to.

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