Ma’ayanoth HaChochmah [“The Wellsprings of Wisdom.”]

Estimate

$1,500–$2,500

Hammer price

$2,750

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author

BUZAGLO, MORDECHAI.

Place

Morocco

Publication

18th century

Description

Manuscript in Hebrew, written in a semi-cursive Sephardic hand on paper.

summary

Unpublished manuscript. A Kabbalistic treatise on the hidden meaning of the orthography of the Torah. Mordechai Buzaglo composed this text in Dara, Morocco, but kept it hidden (G. Scholem, Kabbalah p. 69). Known to predict the future, the author traveled to Safed and after becoming acquainted with R. Chaim Vital merited Gilui Eliyahu (see Chid’a, Shem HaGedolim). The introduction here contains unusual personal details of R. Buzaglo’s initiation into the wellsprings of Kabbalah aged 36 and the difficulties that subsequently ensued. For more details concerning this work, see R. Elior, Mekubalei Dar’a, Pe’amim 24 (1985) pp. 40, 60-65; and see Yosef ibn Naim, Malchei Rabanan pp. 86-87.

ff. 28 (copyist ends in middle of a sentence.) Lightly stained, remnants of previous owners stamps on opening and closing leaves. Later sheep, rubbed. 12mo.

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