Heichal HaKodesh [mystical commentary to the prayers]. With glosses by Aaron Sabuni of Saleh. Edited by Ya’akov Sasportas.

ELBAZ, MOSHE BEN MAIMON.

Immanuel Benveniste

Amsterdam

1653

FIRST EDITION. Title within architectural arch. Several blank leaves with manuscript notes containing excerpts from Abudarham, written in a Yemenite hand,.

Vinograd, Amsterdam 209.

Moses ben Maimon Elbaz (Al-Baz), also known by his Hebrew acronym as Rambam Elbaz, was a noted kabbalist of the late sixteenth century in Morocco. He lived in Tarudant, in the Darʿa (Draa) region, but famine and plague made him a wanderer from place to place. He headed a group of kabbalists, the most famous of whom were Judah ben Ḥanin (Ḥunayn), who went to Algeria, Isaac ben Abraham HaKohen, and Jacob ben Isaac Ifargan, who frequently cited and praised him. (Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, Brill).