Chovoth HaLevavoth.

BACHIAH BEN JOSEPH IBN PAQUDA.

Mantua

1559

Translated into Hebrew by Judah Ibn Tibbon. Scholarly marginalia in an Italian hand especially on Sha’ar HaTeshuvah (ff. 66-68).

Vinograd, Mantua 62.

An attractive copy of this classic work, with new corrections plus seven leaves of indices to Bible and Talmudim. Throughout the ages, the book enjoyed wide popularity in a variety of circles, although in later centuries Eastern European Jews would shy away from the introductory Sha’ar HaYichud, which is of a decidedly philosophical nature, and focus instead on the remainder of the work, with its ethical guidance. USE FOR ANOTHER TIME: One of the “Tikkunimm” proposed by R. Ezekiel Landau, to a man who wished to rectify his acts of adultery, was to study the entire Chovoth Ha-levavoth except for the Shaar Ha-Yichud. See his famous responsum in Noda Be-Yehuda Part 1, no. 35,.