Isaac Luria. Shulchan Aruch [Halachic ritual infused with Kabbalah]. With: Abraham ibn Ezra. Igereth HaShabath.

(KABBALAH).

Jacob Alvarez Soto, Moses Even-Yakar Brandon & Benjamin de Jong

Amsterdam

1649 (i.e. 1709)

FIRST EDITION Igereth HaShabbath.

Vinograd, Amsterdam 898; St. Bod. 5386 no. 14.

With variant date 1649 on title – rather than the standard 1709 as noted by Vinograd. The Bodleian copy has the date 1709 with both chronogram letters “Cheth” and “Samach” of the word “Chesed” enlarged on the title-page. The present copy has only the letter “Cheth” enlarged. In Igereth HaShabath Abraham ibn Ezra recounts a dream in which it was ordained to compose this work to make amends for a prior misunderstood teaching that seems to have led to the unintentended desecration of the Sabbath by a wayward student. (ff. 110v-112r) See EJ, Vol. VIII, cols. 1163-4.