Ma’avar Yabok [prayers for the sick and dead]

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: $200

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author

AARON BERACHIAH BEN MOSES OF MODENA.

printer

Solomon Proops

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1732

Description

Third edition. Title within typographic border. Tailpieces. Wide-margined copy

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 1398

summary

The author (d. 1639), was a follower of the Lurianic Kabbalah as transmitted to Italian scholars by the mysterious figure R. Israel Sarug. R. Chaim Joseph David Azulai attests that he saw several kabbalistic manuscripts of R. Aaron Berechiah in the Modena home of his descendants, members of the Sanguinetti family. Azulai goes on to say he heard the author was visited regularly by a Maggid or celestial guide. Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim I, A-121; EJ, Vol. II, col. 18; Vol. XIV, col. 890

ff. (4), 228. ff. 41-44 loose. Lightly stained and foxed. Original calf, worn. 4to

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