Sepher Avodath HaTamid.

(LITURGY).

Jacob Nunes Vias & Raphael Meldola

Livorno

1794

First Edition. With extensive mystical commentary by the Venetian Kabbalist Elisha Habillo.

Vinograd, Livorno 375.

Habillo utilized much of the philosophy of the controversial Nechemiah Hayon, possibly unaware of his Sabbatean inclinations. At the conclusion of the book, as well as on p.219, the author apologizes for the usage of Hayon’s work, referring to places he cites him and exhorting the reader to ignore these passages. The work utilized by Habillo, “HaTzad HaTzvi” was an attack on R. Zevi Hirsch Ashkenazi, the Hakham Zevi, who had publicly exposed Hayon’s Sabbatianism.