Prayers with Kabbalistic influence.
Wilhermsdorf, 1690. At the press of Isaac son of Judah Katz Gershuni.
Printed together with Sefer Pitron Chalomot which isn’t in the present copy.
Exceedingly Rare! Apparently no other copy has ever been offered at public auction.
Moshe Nathan Rosenfeld, Wilhermsdorf number 35. Vinograd, Wilhermsdorf 47.
Hebrew with portions in Judeo-German. ff. (36).
Ex-library, stained, closely shaved, crude taped repairs, some loss supplied in an early hand. Modern boards.
Rabbi Nathan Nata Hanover (d. 1683), a native of Volhynia, survived the infamous Chmelnicki massacres of 1648-9, subsequently recording the atrocities in his woeful chronicle “Yeven Metzulah” (Venice, 1653). In Italy, where he sought refuge, he made the acquaintance of the great Kabbalists of the time: Moses Zacuto, Hayyim Cohen, Nathan Spira, and Benjamin Halevi. In the present work, Sha’arei Zion (first ed. 1662), Hanover recorded for posterity the Lurianic traditions he imbibed from these men. His work in turn, served as a conduit for the Kabbalistic traditions, and thus became immensely popular.
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