Vital, Chaim. Sha’arei Kedushah [Kabbalah]. * BOUND WITH (as originally issued): Sepher Eilim Letrufah [letters of moral instruction by Moses Nachmanides and Elijah, Gaon of Vilna].

(ALEPPO).

Elijah Hai b. Abraham Sasson

Aleppo

1865

Yaari, Aleppo 1.

The Jews of Aleppo (Arabic: Haleb) referred to their city by the Biblical name of “Aram Tzovah.” This volume contains the first two Hebrew books printed in this ancient Jewish community of Northern Syria. The printer, Elijah Sasson was sent by his father to Italy to learn the art of printing and the rabbinic type he uses here is in fact very similar to that used by the Livornese Hebrew presses.