Vzot Hasefer HaNephesh HaChochmah [Kabbalistic Discourses On The Fate Awaiting The Soul After Death And The Mystical Significance Of The Precepts]. Also Includes Commentaries By Rabbi Moses De Leon And Rabbi Joseph Gikatilla To The Passover Hagadah.
Basle, Konrad Waldkirch, 1608. First Edition.
Title within typographical border. Very Rare!
Moses de Leon of Guadalajara (c. 1240-1305) was one of the greatest Spanish kabbalists of his day, indeed scholars have attributed to him – rather than to Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, the putative author – the composition of the Zohar. Painstaking comparisons have been made of de Leon’s other works, such as our HaNephesh HaChochmah, to ascertain whether there is overlap with the Zohar in terms of style, language and terminology, as well as to determine whether the two Kabbalistic systems are divergent or not. See G. Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1967) pp. 159-204 and EJ, Vol. XII cols. 425-6.
64 Leaves. 20cm
Overall Good- Fair condition, age stains, some pages have marginal tears, original Vellum binding shows signs of age and bent, damaged spine.
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