Sefer Ginat Egoz, fundamental Kabbalistic sefer, by the Mekubal Rabbi Yosef Gikatilla.
Hanau, 1615. First edition. At the press of Eliezer ben Rabbi Chaim and Eliyahu ben Rabbi Zelikman Ulma,
Rare.
The sefer opens with an approbation by the Shl”a Hakadosh who effusively praises both the sefer and author and notes that printing and publicizing kabbalistic works is a segulah to draw the final redemption ever closer.
Title page with illustrations of the binding of Yitzchak and the figures of Moshe and Aharon. With red lettering. Kabbalistic illustrations.
Stefansky, Sifrei Yesod 341.
75 [i.e. 78] leaves. 29 cm. Mispagination.
Rabbi Yosef Gikatilla was one of the great kabbalists in the era of the Rishonim. “In Yisrael, his name is great in Torah and chassidus, and is extremely holy, ” from the praise of the Shl”a Hakadosh in the latter’s approbation to his sefer. Rabbi Yosef authored fundamental works of Kabbalah including Shaarei Tzedek and Shaarei Orah, which were among the first Kabbalistic works to be written after the discovery of the Zohar.
Overall Fair condition, heavy water stains, some marginal tears, page 69 has a tear affecting text, later binding.
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