Vital, Chaim ben Joseph. Shivchei…Harav…Chaim Vital [Autobiography of Chaim Vital]

Estimate

$300–$500

Hammer price

$500

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author

(BAGHDAD)

printer

Rachamim b. Reuben b. Mordecai

Place

Baghdad

Publication

1866

Description

Tailpieces

references

Ya’ari, Baghdad 5 (one of five books printed in the first year of Hebrew printing)

summary

ACCORDING TO YAARI: THE FIRST HEBREW BOOK PRINTED IN BAGHDAD (See A. Ya’ari, Hebrew Printing in the East, p. 101). Though the title has “Shivchei Harav Chaim Vital” (In Praise of R. Chaim Vital), the headers atop the pages give “Sepher Chezyonoth” (Book of Visions) as the title. This spiritual diary of R. Chaim Vital (1542-1620, eminent disciple of master kabbalist R. Isaac Luria (Ar”i), affords us a fascinating glimpse into the interior life of one of the all-time great mystics. See EJ, Vol. XVI, cols. 171-6

ff. (3), 59. ff. 13-14 loose. Overall excellent condition. Contemporary cloth. 12mo

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