Reishith Chochmah [Kabbalistic ethics].

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

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author

DE VIDAS, ELIJAH.

printer

Nathaniel Foa

Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1708

Description

Few marginal notes.

references

Vinograd, Amsterdam 867.

summary

Eliyahu de Vidas was a disciple of R. Moshe Cordovero, doyen of Safed kabbalists. Despite its mystical overtones, Reishith Chochmah has become a popular classic within ethical literature. It discusses all moral aspects of Jewish life linking the motifs of aggadic and mussar literature with that of Kabbalah - and thus broadly disseminating mystical ideas.

ff. 2, 326, 22. Few neat marginal repairs, stained in places. Contemporary sheep over thick wooden boards, rebacked. Thick 4to.

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