Na’im Zemiroth Yisrael [Kabalistic commentary to Isaac Luria's three piyutim for the Sabbath]

SARUG, ISRAEL.

Aaron ben Chaim David Segal

Lemberg

(1800)

Second edition. Title within typographical border. Russian censor’s stamp dated 1837

Vinograd, Lemberg 188

The sixteenth-century Kabbalist, Israel Sarug, was a disciple of R. Isaac Luria (the AR”I). At the death of his master, Sarug devoted himself to the propagation of the latter's Kabalistic system, for which he gained many adherents in various parts of Italy. In this short work, Sarug interprets Luria’s hymns for the three banquets of the Sabbath: Azamer Bi’shevachin, Asader Li’se’udatha and Bnei Hechala. The work carries the encomia of the scholars of the famed kabbalistic conventicle known as the “Klaus” of Brod. Appended are a commentary to Ethics of the Fathers attributed to R. Isaac Luria, and R. Menachem Azariah da Fano’s kabbalistic treatise Ma’amar ha-Milu’im, a supplement to the famed Asarah Ma’amaroth (Ten Treatises)