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Lot #54A
Megalleh Amukot , the copy of Rabbi Lipman Tauski in Holitch.
Megalleh Amukot , the copy of Rabbi Lipman Tauski in Holitch. Kabbalistic commentary to the Pentateuch by R. Nathan Nata b. Solomon Spira (c.1584-1633), Polish kabbalist. He was born in Cracow and maintained a well-known yeshivah. During the last years of his life, he apparently served as head of the rabbinic court. One of the first protagonists in Poland of pseudo-Lurianic Kabbalah, particularly in the version disseminated by R. Israel Sarug, he was interested mainly in the mysticism of numbers rather than in systematic speculation. His Megalleh Amukkot, published by his son after his early death (Cracow, 1637), became one of the classics of Ashkenazi Kabbalah and was reprinted several times. It offered 252 interpretations of one single passage, Moses' prayer in Deuteronomy 3:23. The author was "intoxicated" with numbers; he was concerned less with using the qualities of numbers in order to elucidate matters of Kabbalah and halakhah than in employing the Kabbalah as material for showing his great power with different numerical combinations, and...
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1000$
Lot #59
Ahavat David – Prague, 1800 – Sabbateans Polemic, with authors dedication inscription.
Ahavat David – Prague, 1800 – Sabbateans Polemic, with authors dedication inscription.
Pamphlet Ahavat David, fourth part of his book Olet Chodesh, by Rabbi Elazar Falkels, author of the "Tshuvah Im AhaVah" from Prague.
Estimated price
1000$
Estimated price
1000$
Estimated price
1000$
Estimated price
1000$
Estimated price
1000$
Estimated price
1000$
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