Pearls of wisdom and profound lessons in kabbalah, mussar, commentary on the Torah and principles of the Oral Torah by the saintly kabbalist Rabbi Yeshaya Halevi Horowitz, the Shl”a Hakadosh.

This second edition of Shnei Luchos Habris was printed in Amsterdam in the Hebrew year נח"ת 1698, also the year of the birth of the Baal Shem Tov, and is thus referred to as “The Nachas Edition”.

The Nachas Edition of the Sefer HaShl”a was elaborately printed with large, clear letters. This edition is widely regarded as one of the masterpiece creations of Amsterdam Hebrew printing.

Copy in excellent condition. Additional title page for Vavei Ha’Amudim by his son Rabbi Sheftel Halevi Horowitz, who succeeded his father as Av Beis Din of Posen.

Copy of the English Kabbalist Nathan Löb David Zimmer with his stamps & very extensive (at least 200) marginalia . Bound in before pg. 103 is a manuscript Prayer before Tekiat Shofar in a similar hand, dated 1892.

A Year of Nachas:

Chassidic courts assign great significance to the Nachas Edition of the Sefer HaShl”a, and link the year it was printed—נח"ת-1698—to the birth of the Baal Shem Tov. The Rayatz zy”a inscribed in his letters:

“In the year נח"ת, it was elaborately reprinted, and it is a good sign that the revelation of this sacred work evoked great nachas ruach in the heavens, and in this year, the light of all Yisrael, our master the Baal Shem Tov was born…”

Rabbi Yeshaya Halevi Horowitz (circa 1558-1626), renowned as the Shl”a after the acronym of his magnum opus Shnei Luchos Habris, was renowned throughout the Jewish world for his piety and sanctity. The Shl”a served as Rabbi of the great Diaspora communities of Posen, Ostroh, Frankfurt and Prague, and his son Rabbi Sheftel Halevi Horowitz in his preface to the Shl”a, writes that “his disciples spread out throughout nearly the entire Diaspora.”

In 1622, the Shl”a journeyed to Eretz Yisrael where he was immediately crowned Ashkenazic Rabbi of Yerushalayim and Nassi of Eretz Yisrael. There, he authored Siddur Shaar Hashamayim and Shnei Luchos Habris on the tenets of Jewish life, mussar, halachah and customs as well as kabbalistic prayers and rites.

Sefer HaShl”a was enthusiastically received by all Rabbanim and Jewish communities, including Ashkenazic and Sephardic, chassidim and kabbalists, who all viewed this sefer as fundamental to serving Hashem and improving one’s character traits.

[4], 422, 44, [12] Leaves. 29.6 Cm.

Overall in Excellent condition
, white clean paper, light age stains, tape stains to page 282. New binding.

Stamps of Samson Jacob Levien Jacobson (1791-1864) of Amsterdam.

R. Nathan Löb David Zimmer (1830, Fürth –1895, London) was a Bavarian-born English businessman, scholar, and Kabbalist.

Born in Bavaria into a pious Jewish family, Zimmer immigrated to England in about 1850 and entered business as an importer of toys and fancy goods. He was primarily engrossed with the study of Halakha, however, and especially with the more esoteric commentaries. His knowledge of the Kabbalah, and especially of gematria, was profound, and astronomical calculations also had a strong attraction for him.

He was noted in London for his intense piety, which he probably inherited from his father, who was a fervent Tẓaddiḳ.. He was so fervent in his davening that when he he belonged to the Great Synagogue he rented two seats in order that his frequent genuflections would not disturb his neighbors.He was granted special permission to remain in the synagogue each Kol Nidre.

Zimmer compiled an elaborate genealogical table of the Chief Rabbis of the United Kingdom, and was a frequent contributor to the Jewish periodical press on questions of astronomical calculation and of ritual. He was one of the original founders of the Federation of Synagogues.

The character of Froom Karlkammer in Israel Zangwill\'s Children of the Ghetto is said to have been based on Zimmer.

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Shnei Luchos Habris by the Shl”a Hakadosh. The “Nachas” Edition. Amsterdam 1698. Copy in excellent condition! Birth Year of the Baal Shem Tov- Copy of the English Kabbalist Nathan Löb David Zimmer with extensive marginalia.

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Shnei Luchos Habris by the Shl”a Hakadosh. The “Nachas” Edition. Amsterdam 1698. Copy in excellent condition! Birth Year of the Baal Shem Tov- Copy of the English Kabbalist Nathan Löb David Zimmer with extensive marginalia.

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