Sepher HaZohar [the mystical “Book of Splendor]. Four parts complete in three volumes. * Bound with: David Luria. Kadmuth Sepher HaZohar (at end of vol. II).

Estimate: $500–$700
Hammer price: $850

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

author

SHIMON B”R YOCHAI.

Place

(Koenigsburg

Publication

1816)

Description

The copy of Rabbi Sheftel Kramer and his son-in-law Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak Ruderman . With Rabbi Ruderman’s signature on the front flyleaf of Vol. I and Rabbi Kramer’s signature on the rear of vol. III.

references

Unrecorded by Vinograd; cf Scholem, Bibliographica Kabbalistica no. 40.

summary

Rabbi Sheftel Kramer was Rabbi Ruderman’s father-in-law and a brother-in-law of Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer. He was a Dean of the Yeshiva of New Haven, founded by Rabbi Yehudah Heschel Levenberg.

Slight marginal worming. Contemporary calf, worn. Large 8vo.

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